19 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hackersRe: tuning for samba| From | Sent On | Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| Chad David | Jul 10, 2002 5:06 pm | |
| Daniel O'Connor | Jul 10, 2002 5:14 pm | |
| Daniel O'Connor | Jul 10, 2002 5:15 pm | |
| Chad David | Jul 10, 2002 5:40 pm | |
| Chad David | Jul 10, 2002 5:44 pm | |
| Daniel O'Connor | Jul 10, 2002 6:03 pm | |
| Richard Sharpe | Jul 10, 2002 6:50 pm | |
| Richard Sharpe | Jul 10, 2002 7:09 pm | |
| Dan Nelson | Jul 10, 2002 7:35 pm | |
| Chad David | Jul 10, 2002 8:30 pm | |
| Darren Pilgrim | Jul 10, 2002 11:30 pm | |
| Darren Pilgrim | Jul 11, 2002 12:15 am | |
| Darren Pilgrim | Jul 11, 2002 12:33 am | |
| Richard Sharpe | Jul 11, 2002 12:52 am | |
| Richard Sharpe | Jul 11, 2002 1:32 am | |
| Chad David | Jul 11, 2002 7:32 am | |
| Doug Barton | Jul 14, 2002 2:45 pm | |
| Richard Sharpe | Jul 14, 2002 4:15 pm | |
| Chad David | Jul 23, 2002 11:39 am |
| Subject: | Re: tuning for samba | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | Richard Sharpe (rsha...@ns.aus.com) | |
| Date: | Jul 10, 2002 6:50:29 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers | |
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Chad David wrote:
A local company has been having issues with samba for some time (it kills an e250, and has seriously stressed an e5000) and I've been telling the admin (half seriously) that he 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 parameters for samba on -stable. They currently have ~700 users attached. The load per user is pretty low but just rebooting and handling the reconnects has killed small boxes.
As others have said, memory is an issue.
In some 'benchmark' testing, I have noticed that FreeBSD holds up pretty well to large numbers of connects coming in at one time, say compared to Linux. Starting up 100 clients during about two or three seconds (as long as it takes to fork 100 processes on the driver) does not kill a FreeBSD Samba server as much as it does a Linux server running Linux 2.4.x.
Certainly, a 2GB machine that I regularly test against does not notice the smbds start up all that much.
As a side note, the data being served will be attached to the samba server via NFS.
Hmmm, some of the locking stuff might be an issue then ...
Regards
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