From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 17:41: 7 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 D1DD137B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from colnta.acns.ab.ca (mail.acns.ab.ca [142.179.151.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FECE43E31 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:41:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davidc@colnta.acns.ab.ca) Received: from colnta.acns.ab.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by colnta.acns.ab.ca (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6B0ex5V043772; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:40:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from davidc@colnta.acns.ab.ca) Received: (from davidc@localhost) by colnta.acns.ab.ca (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6B0exIf043771; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:40:59 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:40:59 -0600 From: Chad David To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tuning for samba Message-ID: <20020710184059.A43724@colnta.acns.ab.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Daniel O'Connor , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020710180711.A43342@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <1026346547.9481.2.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1026346547.9481.2.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:45:46AM +0930 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, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:45:46AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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. > > Heheh.. > > > As a side note, the data being served will be attached to the samba server > > via NFS. > > Lots and lots of RAM and mbufs? > > It is basically going to be doing zero local disk access ya? > > Got any 1Gb DIMMs handy? :) So you don't think 32M will do it eh? ;). I have a pretty good handle on the basic issues, what I was hoping for was somebody to step forward and say "we do this, and this is what has worked best for us" :). -- 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