[Samba] AutoCad and ArcView

[Jean-Sebastien Pilon]

1. Are the files constantly accessed by the applications ( like an excel
file opened on a share ) ?

2. What RAID settings does your controller support other than 5? 
   I know IBM servers use 5E, 5EE and 1E which are a little more
interesting than plain 5
   A raid 10 could be interesting too for file serving where writes are
as common as reads.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+jspilon=penson.ca at lists.samba.org 
> [mailto:samba-bounces+jspilon=penson.ca at lists.samba.org] On 
> Behalf Of James McLaughlin
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:31 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] AutoCad and ArcView
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Just curious if anyone else has a SAMBA server that is serving up
> AutoCad and ArcView files to users on Windows.  
> 
> We are utilizing a RAID 5 setup on dual 2.8 GHZ 
> 4 GB RAM
> Intel Controller card (all latest firmware, BIOS etc...etc..)
> 
> Only 4 users are accessing the server, but it seems after a 
> few days the
> server starts to choke up, lock files, and it causes a hardware issue.
> (We have burned through 2 320GB drives in 2 months)
>   
> It is possible of course that the controller card is failing, but to
> take some of the stress off of the machine does anyone have a tweaked
> smb.conf that has NO issues with serving up files of this size all day
> (80-200MB)
> 
> Thanks in advance
> -- 
> James C. McLaughlin
> Montrose County IT
> Office: (970) 252-4598
> Cell: (970) 209-8329 
> 
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