[Samba] hardware to use with samba?????

[Gary Dale]

ECC memory is useful for preventing memory errors. It doesn't matter how 
long it takes to get the wrong answer.  :)  I recommend it for anything 
critical.

The memory access speed is minuscule compared with the disk I/O speed 
and network speed. The type of memory is not important. The amount of 
memory usually plays a bigger role on servers.

How much caching helps depends on usage patterns. If your users are 
accessing the same files frequently, it can really boost performance. If 
they don't, you won't see a great performance increase.

The processor you've chosen has a lot of power for simple file serving. 
I gather from the questions, you're not doing this for a large 
organization, so you're unlikely to need more performance.

You should do some performance monitoring on the server to find out if 
you need to change anything. Put it up in the live environment and see 
how much CPU is being used, what percentage of cache hits you're 
getting, etc., and upgrade it accordingly.


Mazen Ghalayini wrote:

>thanks a lot gary. do u know if ECC memory or registered memory helps? also how much does caching provide performance increase, and i will be using two gigabit ethernets using link aggregation, right now i am thinking of getting one AMD Dual-Core Opteron 275 Italy 1GHz HT Socket 940 but the motherboard allows two of that. shall i go for two of them or just one?
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Gary Dale" <garydale at torfree.net>
>>To: samba at lists.samba.org
>>Subject: Re: [Samba] hardware to use with samba?????
>>Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:08:16 -0400
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>>Mazen Ghalayini wrote:
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>>>if you are to build a samba file server what hardware would you 
>>>pick? does samba benifit from dual core, or dual processors or 
>>>even quad? also does it benifit from memory? and how does it 
>>>benifit from memory? more ram is better for samba? any ideas here?
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>>>regards,
>>>Mazen
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>>Like any file server, you'd want the fastest drives available, which
>>means SCSI, put into a RAID array. Beyond that, more memory allows for
>>more caching. Processor speed is not a huge concern unless you're
>>running gigabit Ethernet, in which case you may need a fast processor
>>just to be able to pump the data into the pipe.
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