Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-23 Thread Chad David
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

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-14 Thread Doug Barton
Chad David wrote: So, I'm building a new box tonight and was wondering if anybody has any tried and true tuning parameters for samba on -stable. Since you never got any actual answers to your question, I offer the following. The only samba tuning option I've ever seen make a difference

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-14 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: Chad David wrote: So, I'm building a new box tonight and was wondering if anybody has any tried and true tuning parameters for samba on -stable. Since you never got any actual answers to your question, I offer the following. The only samba

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Richard Sharpe
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

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Richard Sharpe wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Samba uses a seperate process for each connection, and Windows opens one connection per share. Yes to the first claim, no to the second. Most definitely not. For a single client, windows puts all share access (net use,

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Richard Sharpe wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Samba uses a seperate process for each connection, and Windows opens one connection per share. Yes to the first claim, no to the second. Most definitely not. For a single

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Richard Sharpe wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Samba uses a seperate process for each connection, and Windows opens one connection per share. Yes to the first claim, no to the second. Most

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Chad David
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:33:30AM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Richard Sharpe wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: ... Even with just one connection per machine, though, you're still going to

tuning for samba

2002-07-10 Thread Chad David
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

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-10 Thread Richard Sharpe
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

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-10 Thread Chad David
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

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-10 Thread Chad David
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.. As a side note,

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-10 Thread Richard Sharpe
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

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 10:14, Chad David wrote: 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. I disagree.. Buffering is

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 10), Chad David said: As a side note, the data being served will be attached to the samba server via NFS. Wouldn't it be better to run samba directly on the server that's providing the data? Why force it over the network twice? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-10 Thread Chad David
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 09:36:10PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 10), Chad David said: As a side note, the data being served will be attached to the samba server via NFS. Wouldn't it be better to run samba directly on the server that's providing the data? They have a