On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 05:44:24PM +0200, Gilles Gravier wrote:
> [2007/04/15 17:32:12, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(195)
>  file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1752 are 
> available.

This is normal - smbd asks the kernel to allow it to open as many files
simultaneously as allowed by the kernel hard resource limit (by doing a
setrlimit with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to some arbitrary high number) and
reports the number the kernel will allow.

Do you get smbd.core files?

Martin