Server power

Kourosh Ghassemieh kourosh at loop.com
Fri Feb 16 19:37:24 GMT 2001


If you're worried about the disk subsystem then you could run a hardware
based RAID system using SCSI disks.  If price is a big concern another
option is using a hardware based IDE RAID like ones sold by 3Ware.
They perform pretty well and are much cheaper than SCSI.  3Ware
provides Linux support for all their cards and a friend of mine sells a lot
of them (www.tdl.com/~netex)

At 06:51 PM 2/16/2001 +0000, Mark wrote:
>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

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