Server power

[McEldowney, Michael]

Nothing remarkably poor.  The only measure that matters to me on
transfer rates is the "bitchometer", and noboby's bitchin' so far.  I
have seen numerous posts on the list, however, about slow transfer rates
for large files.  As far as my situation I really haven't noticed any
problems, even with serving multiuser apps.  To be honest, a couple of
the apps we migrated off of a more pysically robust NT server have
actually shown better response times thru Samba.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark [mailto:mark at axeon.screaming.net]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 12:52 PM
To: McEldowney, Michael
Cc: samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Server power


hi, and thanks for this - its not so much CPU load I am concered about
but
the ability to read files stored on the server.  Any idea what kind of
transfer rates you get when everyone tries to access the serveR?


thanks

mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "McEldowney, Michael" <MMcEldowney at deltaregional.com>
To: "'Mark'" <mark at axeon.screaming.net>; <samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 6:56 PM
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