From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 17:15:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8E837B400; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:15:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E83A43E54; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:15:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6B0EoZL047066; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:44:51 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: tuning for samba From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Chad David Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, alfred@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020710180711.A43342@colnta.acns.ab.ca> References: <20020710180711.A43342@colnta.acns.ab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 11 Jul 2002 09:44:50 +0930 Message-Id: <1026346492.9481.0.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 09:37, Chad David wrote: > A local company has been having issues with samba for some time (it kills > an e250, and has seriously stressed an e5000) and I've been telling the > admin (half seriously) that he should just toss it on a PC with FreeBSD. > Well they finally got tired of hearing FreeBSD this and FreeBSD that and > asked me to bring a box in if I was so confident... tomorrow morning at > 9am. So, I'm building a new box tonight and was wondering if anybody > has any tried and true tuning parameters for samba on -stable. They > currently have ~700 users attached. The load per user is pretty low > but just rebooting and handling the reconnects has killed small boxes. > As a side note, the data being served will be attached to the samba server > via NFS. > > Thanks. > > -- > Chad David davidc@acns.ab.ca > www.FreeBSD.org davidc@freebsd.org > ACNS Inc. Calgary, Alberta Canada > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message