> I have a quick question. Is anyone using Samba running under > linux on the zSeries?
Yes, both internally and at customers. > If so, what's the number of clients > you have connecting and the performance of the box? The largest one I'm aware of is about 6500 regular client users. Performance is fairly linear (obviously proportional to # of clients connecting and traffic volume), but we found that printing was much higher overhead than file serving (it's burstier traffic, and given the propensity of micro apps to create big graphic bitmap blobs, there's a lot more data there). Normal use for that instance is about 75% of a z800 CPU during the day; it's got about 5 TB of FCP SCSI disk attached. We've found Samba 3 to be very stable and reliable. We have thought about splitting that instance into several smaller ones for easier backup/restore, but haven't had time to do so. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
