On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Chad David wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:20:51AM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote: > > > > Certainly, a 2GB machine that I regularly test against does not notice the > > smbds start up all that much. > > I have no real way of testing this type of load here, but first thing tomorrow > morning I'll know..
Up on samba.org in CVS under cifs-load-gen is a tool that can simulate clients. Simulating the startup of 100's of clients and then watching what happens to the server is not too hard, as long as you have a driver that can withstand the load of that many driver processes starting :-) > > > > > As a side note, the data being served will be attached to the samba server > > > via NFS. > > > > Hmmm, some of the locking stuff might be an issue then ... > > This is my biggest concern. I just don't know what to tune here since > the data just basically passes straight through the box, and the with > about of data being served and the access patterns buffering is pointless. > > One thing I failed to mention, none of the clients ever write; the system > is completely read only. > > Thanks. > > -- Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
