Chad David wrote: > > A local company has been having issues with samba for some time (it kills > an e250, and has seriously stressed an e5000) and I've been telling the > admin (half seriously) that he should just toss it on a PC with FreeBSD. > Well they finally got tired of hearing FreeBSD this and FreeBSD that and > asked me to bring a box in if I was so confident... tomorrow morning at > 9am. So, I'm building a new box tonight and was wondering if anybody > has any tried and true tuning parameters for samba on -stable. They > currently have ~700 users attached. The load per user is pretty low > but just rebooting and handling the reconnects has killed small boxes. > > As a side note, the data being served will be attached to the samba server > via NFS.
The one thing I've seen kill a box besides the reboot-reconnect blast is content searches by the Windows Find dialog. All it takes is one user on a fast machine and network link doing the Windows equivalent of "find / -name * -exec grep "foo" \{\} \;" to run you out of file descriptors in a matter of seconds. Samba uses a seperate process for each connection, and Windows opens one connection per share. Most Windows users only work on one share at a time, so with two open shares on ~700 machines that means ~1400 connections with roughly half of them idle. That's a lot of freeable RAM should you suddenly need it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message