nmblookup?

[Chris Murphy]

Lately I'm noticing that after a couple days of uptime that I have  
PIDs around 25000. That's never happened before so I got suspicious  
of some process launching and quitting over and over again. As it  
turns out fs_usage snags nmblookup launching and quitting sometimes  
4-5 times a minute, but then nothing for a few minutes, then more  
activity. It doesn't last long, a second or two. But based on the  
description I'm not clear on why it's behaving the way it is. Even  
with uptimes of 20-30 days on this laptop I might reach PIDs of  
around 9000.

Anyway, it's DirectoryServices that's launching each instance of  
nmblookup. I just don't know why.

22:18:47  execve          /usr/bin/ 
nmblookup                             0.000094   DirectorySer
22:18:47  open            ocking.framework/Versions/A/ 
ByteRangeLocking   0.000071   nmblookup

I'm not using any software for Windows file sharing (client or  
server). So this is kindof goofy. Not sure what to make of it.  
Suggestions?


Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
New York, NY
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Co-author "Real World Color Management, 2nd Ed"