[Samba] Samba performance issues

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 15:57, John Coston wrote:
>   12:46pm  up 2 days, 17:14,  3 users,  load average: 20.24, 20.26, 20.51
> 129 processes: 106 sleeping, 23 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 36.1% user, 63.8% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
> Mem:  3229040K av, 3166372K used,   62668K free,       0K shrd,  

i have about 20 users on a 900Mhz machine with 100G of storage (only
384M ram)

i don't think it's ever been cpu bound as a result of samba activity.

that 63.8% system seems out of whack...
what is the disk subsystem?

brad