(In reply to Bruce Rogers from comment #2) > What I am seeing is that the parent of the zombied smbd processes is smbd. Agreed, my post acknowledges that too: (In reply to Jiri Slaby from comment #0) > > xslaby 30600 0.0 0.1 49892 20088 ? Ss �no24 0:01 \_ /usr/sbin/smbd -l /tmp/qemu-smb.ZIY0XZ -s /tmp/qemu-smb.ZIY0XZ/smb.conf > > xslaby 30602 0.0 0.0 45440 4892 ? S �no24 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/smbd -l /tmp/qemu-smb.ZIY0XZ -s /tmp/qemu-smb.ZIY0XZ/smb.conf > > xslaby 30603 0.0 0.0 45432 3328 ? S �no24 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/smbd -l /tmp/qemu-smb.ZIY0XZ -s /tmp/qemu-smb.ZIY0XZ/smb.conf > > xslaby 32070 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z �no24 0:00 \_ [smbd] <defunct> 32070 zombie's parent is 30600 -- /usr/sbin/smbd