[Samba] Tuning for > thousand users

[Gerald Carter]

On 1 Mar 2002 ard at waikato.ac.nz wrote:

> 
> Hi troops.
> 
> I'm expected many hundreds of clients on my new Samba server, and am
> concerned about excess paging.
> 
> Each smbd is about 3.8M (according to "ps", "top" disagrees), of which
> about 2M is resident, about 1.2M shared.  I've got syslog logging and
> utmp in there, both of which I could do without.  Quotas are for keeps.
> 
> So I rebuilt without syslog and utmp (respect and thanks to whomever
> ensured Samba builds with "-j"), and recovered a whopping six kilobytes
> out of a 1.5M binary.
> 
> 
> So I guess that's that.  What's the leanest way to build smbd?
> 
> Also, does anybody have any tips for tuning a 2.4.18 kernel for masses of
> relatively idle smbd processes?

deadtime = 15 might help.





cheers, jerry
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