Server power

Gill, Vern vgill at technologist.com
Fri Feb 16 19:12:32 GMT 2001


I have most of that running on a 233/MMX w/ 96MB RAM. Only 70 wkstns,
but still doing everything but squid on it.
I am running TNG and HEAD... TNG CVS for PDC/file, 2.2 CVS for printer
Also runs netatalk and nfs, does routing for my network
(ipchains/ipmasqadm), does pptpd...

I think thats pretty impressive.
In fact, until last week, it was doing all that on a P100 w/ 32MB RAM...

Course, it wasn't very fast, but it worked. This is not a
recommendation, just a "success" story. I am quite happy with my
setup...

Enjoy.

-----Original Message-----
From: McEldowney, Michael [mailto:MMcEldowney at deltaregional.com]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 10:56 AM
To: 'Mark'; samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org
Subject: RE: Server power


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





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