On 16-Dec-98 Timothy MacDonald wrote:
> Hail all,
>
> I currently have some medium to big iron ( Sun Enterprise 3000 quad
> CPU ) functioning as an NFS application server in our shop. It is my opinion
> that I could replace this with an SMP linux machine, thereby freeing up the
> Sparc to perform platform dependent tasks such as compiles. I would
> guesstimate that currently I am serving around 150-200 concurrent users peak
> on the Enterprise. My first assumption is that the Enterprise is overkill
> for the task at hand. The second is that SOME hardware configuration of a
> linux machine could handle this load. The question is, what would I need to
> get? A full blown Quad Xeon 450 rig? Can anyone give me a real world example
> of a linux box running in this type of capacity? Am I crazy? I am asking for
> CPU usage only. The I/O and storage on the machine would be a RAID 5
> hardware implementation connected via UltraSCSI 2 to the box.
>
>
> regards,
>
> Timothy MacDonald
> Landmark Graphics
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I can't say anything about the hardware configuration, but we have some trouble
between Solaris (2.51 /2.6) clients (Sparc) and a Linux SMP NFS-Server.
Sometimes the Solaris clients makes over NFS a "normal read" on a link and not
a "read link". In this case the Linux NFS-server responds with the (correct ?)
answer "error: is a directory". We think, it's problem of Solaris and not of
the NFS-Server, but it's a problem.
regards
Yorck von Collani
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