Oops, sorry Leland, I got your given and family names confused in the post below.
Ron Davis IT Infrastructure Dept of Veterans' Affairs Ph +61 2 6289 6241 Fax +61 2 6289 4701 Mob 0402 265 841 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Davis, Ron Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:38 AM To: 'Linux on 390 Port' Subject: RE: How many printers per Samba instance? Hi Folks, Thanks for the answers so far, especially David Boyes' very lucid explanations. Luckily most of our printers (but not all, as always there's a somewhat eclectic mix) are postscript capable, so we're better off than we might have been. Looks like we're going to have to budget for some additional Linux instances, has anybody got any good tips on how to break bad news to management? :) However, based on Lucius's remark below, there seems to be at least 2 of us seeking the answer as to why n small instances of Samba are "better" than one "big" one. No doubt the solution lies within VM, but as I have no real experience with VM I can't guess what it is! Anybody care to try to enlighten us? Thanks again, this is a great forum, I've been lurking for months and have learned a lot! Ron Davis IT Infrastructure Dept of Veterans' Affairs Ph +61 2 6289 6241 Fax +61 2 6289 4701 Mob 0402 265 841 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Lucius, Leland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 1:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How many printers per Samba instance? What about the original posters other question: : As well as knowing little about Linux, I don't know much about VM either... : so here's another dumb question... why can't we run just 1 print server, and : let VM give it more resources... after all, there's just so many MIPS : available, why would we expect better throughput by sharing those MIPS among : many instances, rather than devoting them to single server? I've wondered this myself and would be interested in the answer as well. Thx, Leland
