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Date:      11 Jul 2002 10:34:12 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>
Cc:        Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@ns.aus.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tuning for samba
Message-ID:  <1026349454.9481.6.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020710184451.B43724@colnta.acns.ab.ca>
References:  <20020710180711.A43342@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207111113340.4936-100000@ns.aus.com>  <20020710184451.B43724@colnta.acns.ab.ca>

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On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 10:14, Chad David wrote:
> 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.

I disagree.. Buffering is probably going to help - even just a little.

> One thing I failed to mention, none of the clients ever write; the system
> is completely read only.

Ahh.. well you can throw any type of 'real' locking away and tell samba
to fake it all I guess.

You should also look at the acregmin/acregmax/acdirmin/acdirmax options
- if the store is static then you could probably increase them quite a
lot which would reduce NFS traffic.

Also don't forget to run nfsiod.

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
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