[Samba] max concurrent CIFS connections

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jeremy Allison wrote:
| On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:22:31PM +0200, Pseudomizer wrote:
|>I need some help please. I have been told from an administrator that Samba
|>does only support up to 3.000 concurrent CIFS connections and each
|>connections reserve 5MB of memory.
|
| This is incorrect and way too high. It depends on how active each
| connection is. On the HP PSA (Print Server Appliance) I believe it's
| a much smaller number (I'm sure Jerry can give more accurate figures).
| Of course that's for printing only. Depends what the users are doing.

My rule of thumb is 2Mb per smbd.  With that man connections
I'd go for a maybe an 8 way SMP box?  But to be honest, I've
never done a server that lareg in production myself.  And I
don't sysadmin anymore as a general rule.






cheers, jerry
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