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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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