[Samba] Hardware for faster Samba server

[Gémes Géza]

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lrnobs írta:
| I have Samba running on FreeBSD as a dedicated file server, servicing
| Windows pcs running a database application, on a Pentium 4 2GHZ 512MB RAM,
| with a SCSI drive.  The server's only job is to run Samba.
|
| The boss is asking what kind of new box we could get.  Looking in the
price
| range of 1-5K.
|
| Should we get an Intel Xeon, or go to a different chip and maybe run
| OpenBSD.
|
| Will dual processors do me any good with Samba as the only significant
| service running?
|
~From my experience with some file based (very unreliable) databases I
got the conclusion, that the weakest point of such a setup is usually
network speed, and Server IO. I would recommend to try out some Gigabit
Ethernet cards, maybe more than one network card in the server.

Cheers,

Geza
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