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? :) -- 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." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
