Re: load balancing question

2002-10-10 Thread John E. Malmberg
Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote: > I didnt start this thread, i was just suggesting LSF as good load balancing > techqnique for samba Please pardon my confusion. > But you have raised valid questions for the person who started this. > thanks' It seems the gating factor for any type of performance in

RE: load balancing question

2002-10-10 Thread Javid Abdul-AJAVID1
23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: load balancing question Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote: > Why dont we chose a mechanism to connect to the host itself > like static dns rounrobin ,each connection will round robin'ed' > or some dynamic round robin utilies Well, you are the on

Re: load balancing question

2002-10-09 Thread John E. Malmberg
Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote: > Why dont we chose a mechanism to connect to the host itself > like static dns rounrobin ,each connection will round robin'ed' > or some dynamic round robin utilies Well, you are the only one that really knows the requirements of your application. You seem to be ask

RE: load balancing question

2002-10-09 Thread Javid Abdul-AJAVID1
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: load balancing question Volker Lendecke wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:29:44AM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > >>So it all comes down to what the underlying platform supports for shared >>simultaneous disk access. > > Even that will not

Re: load balancing question

2002-10-09 Thread John E. Malmberg
To clear up some confustion in this thread. A DFS will only help distribute the load if the clients are accessing files in different directories. \\host\share\dir1\ would be served by host_1 \\host\share\dir2\ would be served by host_2 \\host\share\dir3\ would be served by host_3 If all

Re: load balancing question

2002-10-09 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:17:30PM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote: > Right, a distributed file system should support distributed locking, and > the rate of logons should not be that high that it stretches the ability > of the DFS to lock and unlock the file. The point is not to make that work, thi

Re: load balancing question

2002-10-08 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Volker Lendecke wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:29:44AM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > > > >>So it all comes down to what the underlying platform supports for shared > >>simultaneous disk access. > > > > Even that will not help. Load Balanc

Re: load balancing question

2002-10-08 Thread John E. Malmberg
Volker Lendecke wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:29:44AM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > >>So it all comes down to what the underlying platform supports for shared >>simultaneous disk access. > > Even that will not help. Load Balancing SMB will not work due to the locking > stuff across con

Re: load balancing question

2002-10-08 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:29:44AM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > So it all comes down to what the underlying platform supports for shared > simultaneous disk access. Even that will not help. Load Balancing SMB will not work due to the locking stuff across connections. If you could get tdb's w

Re: load balancing question

2002-10-08 Thread John E. Malmberg
Richard Sharpe wrote: > On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, René Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > >>Richard Sharpe wrote: >> >> >>>On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, John E. Malmberg wrote: >>> Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote: >MSDFS is filey system right, how will it help to load balance samba >connections >

Re: load balancing question

2002-10-07 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, René Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Richard Sharpe wrote: > > >On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, John E. Malmberg wrote: > > > > > > > >>Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote: > >> > >> > >>>MSDFS is filey system right, how will it help to load balance samba > >>>connections > >>>what criteria does it r

Re: load balancing question

2002-10-07 Thread René Nieuwenhuizen
Richard Sharpe wrote: >On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, John E. Malmberg wrote: > > > >>Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote: >> >> >>>MSDFS is filey system right, how will it help to load balance samba >>>connections >>>what criteria does it rely to load balance ( like memory, or no of >>>connetions etc.. ) >>>

Re: load balancing question

2002-10-07 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote: > > MSDFS is filey system right, how will it help to load balance samba > > connections > > what criteria does it rely to load balance ( like memory, or no of > > connetions etc.. ) > > MSDFS does not really load balance.

Re: load balancing question

2002-10-07 Thread John E. Malmberg
Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote: > MSDFS is filey system right, how will it help to load balance samba > connections > what criteria does it rely to load balance ( like memory, or no of > connetions etc.. ) MSDFS does not really load balance. MSDFS distributes the subdirectories of a directory betwee

RE: load balancing question

2002-10-07 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote: > MSDFS is filey system right, how will it help to load balance samba > connections > what criteria does it rely to load balance ( like memory, or no of > connetions etc.. ) Well, that is up to you. It is simple enough to roundrobin the entries. Do

RE: load balancing question

2002-10-06 Thread Richard Sharpe
M > Subject: Re: load balancing question > > Stephan Stapel wrote: > > Dear people on the list! > > > > I hope it's ok to ask a feature question on this core-feature list. > > What I would like to know is whether there are some efforts on > > im

RE: load balancing question

2002-10-06 Thread Javid Abdul-AJAVID1
Good load balancing utility would be lsf , which is dynamic but not free i suppose, others would BIND static round robin any more suggestions :-))) -Original Message- From: John E. Malmberg To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/5/02 10:03 PM Subject: Re: load balancing question Stephan Stapel

Re: load balancing question

2002-10-05 Thread John E. Malmberg
Stephan Stapel wrote: > Dear people on the list! > > I hope it's ok to ask a feature question on this core-feature list. > What I would like to know is whether there are some efforts on > implementing load balancing features into samba or some experiences/ > experiments in this area. As stan

load balancing question

2002-10-05 Thread Stephan Stapel
Dear people on the list! I hope it's ok to ask a feature question on this core-feature list. What I would like to know is whether there are some efforts on implementing load balancing features into samba or some experiences/ experiments in this area. As standard-Windows doesn't offer these feat