Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:35:01 +0530 From: "Gautham Ganapathy" <gautham@lisphacker.org> To: "Frank Bonnet" <f.bonnet@esiee.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ? Message-ID: <fe7944830810171605k5e13218fr27ef834bed113298@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48F8A258.2060407@esiee.fr> References: <48F8A258.2060407@esiee.fr>
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr> wrote: > Hello > > I am on the way to setup a brand new Samba server with OpenLDAP backend > > I am very interrested by feedback of "real world" samba admins running it > with FreeBSD > or Linux , my boss push hardly to use Linux but I would much prefer FreeBSD > 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 ) > > More seriously I'm also searching for eventuals benchmarks that compare > those two configurations. > > Thanks a lot. > > Hi This is probably not a reliable or objective comparison, but I get much better performance at home b/w a fbsd7/windows vista client and a fbsd6.2 server (freenas) over a 11g wireless network than in the office b/w a windows xp client and an ubuntu 8.04 server over a 100 Mbps ethernet network (even if I am the only person using the server). my server at home runs on an assembled 1.8 GHz athlon xp system with 512 MB RAM. The one in the office is a Wipro NetPower server with a 3 GHz Pentium 4 and 2 GB RAM. both servers run the default samba versions they came with, and both clients are kept upto date it could possibly be a problem with the default ubuntu server configuration, but i have not checked it out yet -- Gautham Ganapathy http://lisphacker.org
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