From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 18 16:15:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23142 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:15:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA23134 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:15:47 GMT (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA05036; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:15:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <353933FA.1867C615@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:15:06 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ricardo Manuel Núñez Chirino" CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About FreeBSD and Samba as a big server References: <19980418214607.AAC21349@telcel.telcel.net.ve> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, We currently have a 'lowly' P75 (with no second level cache) serving about 165 users for POP3 mail, it hardly breaks out into a sweat - every time I use the machine the load average is rarely about 0.5 - And that's with 165 users who insist on checking for mail 'every single minute'... :-) I run samba on my local machines, and I've always found it to be very stable - I don't use it for printing though - but I can't see why that should be a big problem... Regards, Karl Pielorz Ricardo Manuel Núñez Chirino wrote: > > Dear Gentlemen, > > 1) What do you think about the performance and stability of my PC if I used > it with FreeBSD as a pop mail server to 150 users? The users would > read their mails using other computers (they won´t use Telnet to read their > mails). > > 2) What if I use Samba??? Would it be a stable file server and print > service server to 150 machines running Windows NT Workstation (still being > a pop mail server)?? > > Yours faithfully, > > Ricardo Nunez To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message