<samba:parameter name="deadtime" context="G" developer="1" type="integer" xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common"> <description> <para>The value of the parameter (a decimal integer) represents the number of minutes of inactivity before a connection is considered dead, and it is disconnected. The deadtime only takes effect if the number of open files is zero.</para> <para>This is useful to stop a server's resources being exhausted by a large number of inactive connections.</para> <para>Most clients have an auto-reconnect feature when a connection is broken so in most cases this parameter should be transparent to users.</para> <para>Using this parameter with a timeout of a few minutes is recommended for most systems.</para> <para>A deadtime of zero indicates that no auto-disconnection should be performed.</para> </description> <value type="default">0</value> <value type="example">15</value> </samba:parameter>