From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 17:57:41 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 A43D037B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:57:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.aus.com (adsl-64-175-244-12.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.175.244.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC8143E09 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:57:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsharpe@ns.aus.com) Received: from localhost (rsharpe@localhost) by ns.aus.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6B29s005503; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:39:55 +0930 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:39:54 +0930 (CST) From: Richard Sharpe To: Chad David Cc: Subject: Re: tuning for samba In-Reply-To: <20020710184451.B43724@colnta.acns.ab.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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