Server power

[Mark]

I am planning on a 100Mb Swtiched Network - 100Mb card both on the server
and the workstations.  If I go for the mutiple drives as you suggested, is
it going to speed things up to have more than 1 network card, or was that
just another suggestion?

Thanks

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simo Sorce" <simo.sorce at polimi.it>
To: "Mark" <mark at axeon.screaming.net>
Cc: "McEldowney, Michael" <MMcEldowney at deltaregional.com>;
<samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Server power


> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, 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?
>
> Well, it really depends on what kind of network you will have
> 1Gb, 100Mb, 10Mb, switched?
> Generally a server that runs at 100Mb in a swithed network with client at
> 10Mb runs no bad (I've tested with 50+ clients).
> But If you think you will have really nuch trafic from the clients, thimk
> of putting 2/3 100Mb cards (or 1Gb?) and take care of disk speed (A scsi
> RAID5 for homes and RAID0 for the stored CDROMs will rock) IDE does not
> scale on multiple access, while scsi do and really well.
>
> >
> > 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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