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Date:      Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:39:54 +0930 (CST)
From:      Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@ns.aus.com>
To:        Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>
Cc:        <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: tuning for samba
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207111138180.4936-100000@ns.aus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020710184451.B43724@colnta.acns.ab.ca>

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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Chad David wrote:

> 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..

Up on samba.org in CVS under cifs-load-gen is a tool that can simulate 
clients. Simulating the startup of 100's of clients and then watching what 
happens to the server is not too hard, as long as you have a driver that 
can withstand the load of that many driver processes starting :-)
 
> > 
> > > 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.
> 
> 

-- 
Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org, 
sharpe@ethereal.com


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