Samba Performance

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

you typically want 600 to 800k per smbd process, to stop process
swap-outs.  this doesn't help on old versions of unix that don't have
memory-process-sharing paged memory.

that's one suggestion...

On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> >Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:50:33 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: Rob Naccarato <rob.naccarato at sheridanc.on.ca>
> >Subject: Samba Performance
> >Sender: alpha-osf-managers-owner at ornl.gov
> >To: alpha-osf-managers at ornl.gov
> >Delivered-to: alpha-osf-managers at sws1.ctd.ornl.gov
> >Followup-to: poster
> >
> >
> >Hi Managers,
> >
> >I was wondering if anyone out there is running Samba with ~300 clients and
> >would they coorespond with me regarding how they pieced it all together.
> >
> >In my environment, I'm running into major performance issues which I think
> >is the cause of some problems (like Win95 not being able to login, for
> >example).  All servers are DU4.0D.
> >
> >Performance is terrible, especially on the server end.  My application
> >servers routinely have no idle time in CPU.  It's usually split between
> >30% user and 60% system.
> >
> >Any idea/suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >Rob Naccarato           "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages
> >Sys Admin               because they know they can be impolite without
> >Sheridan College        having their skulls split, as a general thing."
> >Oakville, Ont. Canada                      - Robert E. Howard
> >
> >
> 
> Regards
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<a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.anu.edu.au" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton  </a>
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