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From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>
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Subject: Re: tuning for samba
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Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> > Samba uses a seperate process for each connection, and Windows opens
> > one connection per share.
> 
> Yes to the first claim, no to the second. Most definitely not. For a
> single client, windows puts all share access (net use, mounting, whatever
> you want to call it) over the single TCP connection to the server.

You're right, sorry.  I had gotten mixed up on the multiple connection
issue because of my own configuration that results in one share per
connection.

> Nope, ~700 connections!

Even with just one connection per machine, though, you're still going
to have a significant amount of swappable memory in idle smbd
processes.

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