From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 17:44:57 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 0C03537B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from colnta.acns.ab.ca (mail.acns.ab.ca [142.179.151.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7207143E6A for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:44:52 -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 g6B0ip5V043815; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:44:51 -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 g6B0ipRa043814; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:44:51 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:44:51 -0600 From: Chad David To: Richard Sharpe Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tuning for samba Message-ID: <20020710184451.B43724@colnta.acns.ab.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Sharpe , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020710180711.A43342@colnta.acns.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from rsharpe@ns.aus.com on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:20:51AM +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 11:20:51AM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote: > > Certainly, a 2GB machine that I regularly test against does not notice the > smbds start up all that much. I have no real way of testing this type of load here, but first thing tomorrow morning I'll know.. > > > As a side note, the data being served will be attached to the samba server > > via NFS. > > Hmmm, some of the locking stuff might be an issue then ... This is my biggest concern. I just don't know what to tune here since the data just basically passes straight through the box, and the with about of data being served and the access patterns buffering is pointless. One thing I failed to mention, none of the clients ever write; the system is completely read only. 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