Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 13:39:38 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: Michael Lednev <reaper@reaper.yaroslavl.ru> Cc: Seur Bors <seurbors@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server Message-ID: <ade45ae90904031239y128389eamf3d9fc5b4e7ec500@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49D65A4A.5080905@reaper.yaroslavl.ru> References: <26b281ee0904031042g754096d1k13d016b88d653cb8@mail.gmail.com> <49D65A4A.5080905@reaper.yaroslavl.ru>
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On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Michael Lednev <reaper@reaper.yaroslavl.ru>wrote: > Seur Bors =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4: > >> As well, if anyone has any web-links to recommended reading, I would >> greatly >> appreciate them. >> > > You can try FreeNAS. It has "standard" file sharing with samba managed > through web-interface and it also has many more nice features. > > Oh yeah, and it's FreeBSD. :) > Good points; And a previous employer was running samba on a multi-site VPN school networ= k with 600 employees.. with a pretty high load. Biggest thing I found when I started to look into it is the fact that each client connection to the server yielded yet another PID to have the CPU wor= k under. So a central server with 600 employees (potentially) hitting it at once would bring the system load up very fast. I saw system loads of 200-300 by use of nagios. So it would be a wonderful solution; it may peg the system load higher than one would initially expect, depending on what the fileserver actually serve= s (CAD files, video rendering, Access MDB files, etc) as a potential bottleneck. I'd pick 10k RPM drives...if you're using more complex files like the ones mentioned above. A fast spindle speed will send the file down the wire and releive system load (as it is logically going through my head). I've seen 10k SATA drives, but the cooling is important. FreeNAS might be a good choice, because it's a stripped down version. But I'd be concerned of system load higher than anything else for the current situation, and expansion needs later. Enjoy your weekends!
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