From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 16:52:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B29B1065686 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:52:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-144.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-144.bluehost.com [67.222.38.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 566DA8FC18 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:52:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 10358 invoked by uid 0); 17 Oct 2008 16:52:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy5.bluehost.com with SMTP; 17 Oct 2008 16:52:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=lc21wxzD3jAq0C99kM7j1JUmNNR4QVqWoI66sNbuI1I/MevEVGUMjkjA34ym1FQp8AHuDtilav3Z/1j+Q1givQDclxeD+LheiyTNgjZwaFCk3zwJOVc9HtfcEGfI0qfP; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KqsZC-0005zZ-Ub for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:52:47 -0600 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:44:27 -0600 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:44:27 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20081017164427.GE2071@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <48F8A258.2060407@esiee.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Rgf3q3z9SdmXC6oT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48F8A258.2060407@esiee.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Cc: Subject: Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:52:50 -0000 --Rgf3q3z9SdmXC6oT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:34:00PM +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello >=20 > I am on the way to setup a brand new Samba server with OpenLDAP backend >=20 > I am very interrested by feedback of "real world" samba admins running it= =20 > with FreeBSD > or Linux , my boss push hardly to use Linux but I would much prefer FreeB= SD > so good arguments are welcome ( my boss is a smart guy , if I give enough > litterature that says FreeBSD is better, he will be OK ) >=20 > More seriously I'm also searching for eventuals benchmarks that compare > those two configurations. Linux-based systems and FreeBSD systems should support Samba roughly identically well. I seem to recall seeing some benchmarks for FreeBSD network server operations under heavy load just crushing comparative Linux-based servers, but I don't recall where. Anyway, if you can find benchmarks to that effect, or at least benchmarks that don't show Linux substantially beating FreeBSD, you should be covered. Add in some stuff about how FreeBSD is better (for your purposes, at least) in general, regardless of the specific Samba stuff, and you should have a win. FreeBSD support for Samba is, in my limited experience (haven't used Samba much in the last four years), excellent. So is Samba support on, for instance, Debian. I believe you'll have to look outside of Samba support for reasons to pick one over the other. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] print substr('Just another Perl hacker', 0, -2); --Rgf3q3z9SdmXC6oT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkj4wOsACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXYDgCgwtCebM7gPXzAjiCEU5DXIxaP ulcAoNqmNelBtZAbiHTjYknisvo3zsKC =sIqj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Rgf3q3z9SdmXC6oT--