<samba:parameter name="deadtime"
context="G"
developer="1"
xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common">
<listitem>
<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>
<para>Default: <command moreinfo="none">deadtime = 0</command></para>
<para>Example: <command moreinfo="none">deadtime = 15</command></para>
</listitem>
</samba:parameter>