Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:40:59 -0600 From: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tuning for samba Message-ID: <20020710184059.A43724@colnta.acns.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <1026346547.9481.2.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:45:46AM %2B0930 References: <20020710180711.A43342@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <1026346547.9481.2.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:45:46AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 09:37, Chad David wrote: > > A local company has been having issues with samba for some time (it kills > > an e250, and has seriously stressed an e5000) and I've been telling the > > admin (half seriously) that he should just toss it on a PC with FreeBSD. > > Well they finally got tired of hearing FreeBSD this and FreeBSD that and > > asked me to bring a box in if I was so confident... tomorrow morning at > > 9am. So, I'm building a new box tonight and was wondering if anybody > > has any tried and true tuning parameters for samba on -stable. They > > currently have ~700 users attached. The load per user is pretty low > > but just rebooting and handling the reconnects has killed small boxes. > > Heheh.. > > > As a side note, the data being served will be attached to the samba server > > via NFS. > > Lots and lots of RAM and mbufs? > > It is basically going to be doing zero local disk access ya? > > Got any 1Gb DIMMs handy? :) So you don't think 32M will do it eh? ;). I have a pretty good handle on the basic issues, what I was hoping for was somebody to step forward and say "we do this, and this is what has worked best for us" :). -- Chad David davidc@acns.ab.ca www.FreeBSD.org davidc@freebsd.org ACNS Inc. Calgary, Alberta Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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