Server power

[McEldowney, Michael]

Mark,
 
Here's what I have installed:
 
270 Windows Workstations, most Win98.  1 Linux server that currently
runs Samba for print services, logon services, file services, WINS
service, Netbios service; DHCP; Squid for Internet Proxy of all my
workstations; Apache for our intra and Internet server.
 
The server is a Dell Optiplex GX1 _desktop_.  400Mhz PIII processor, 30
GB IDE harddrive, 128MB of memory.
 
I've been monitoring CPU load for over 3 weeks now to determine what
else I can put on this server, and my load has rarely been over 5%.
 
HTH,
 
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark [mailto:mark at axeon.screaming.net]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 12:23 PM
To: samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org
Subject: Server power


 

I intend to install a network of 110 Windows Workstations into an
Educational establishment.  The server would (naturaly!) be running
linux & samba (2.2 if it is released as stable in time).  I would like
to store CD images for the workstations to access, as well as the server
acting as a logon client.  I understand that this would be quite a large
demand on any server - so I am looking for suggestions of how powerful a
server would need to be - or if I would need more than one.
 
 
Many thanks
 
 
Mark