[Samba] Throughput Constraints
Baron Young
baronyoung72 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 30 18:34:58 GMT 2006
I hope I'm in the right place for this question. I am in the process of creating a large scale production fileserver architecture for the purpose of serving very large files (~4.5GB) to a small number of clients (~200). My assumptions to this point have been that my throughput would be constrained by hardware and not software, but I would like some validation of this thinking. I am hoping to achieve throughput rates of ~200MB/s using whatever hardware needed to achieve this (FC on the disk side, possible infiniband or multiple 1Gb ethernet links for network side). CPU would be 2-4 3+ Ghz, 8-16GB mem (more if needed). I've "heard" that my throughput using Samba could be limited to more like 80MB/s but I'm not sure why this would be the case.
Any experiences using Samba for throughput rates this high would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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