On Thu, 8 May 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Rapha?l Berghmans wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've to setup a Samba-LDAP-PDC-Profile for a site with 1000 Windows
> clients (NT4, 2000 and XP). What are the hardware requirement for this
> king of config (especially how many RAM I need ?)
I'd allow:
512MB Base RAM, plus minimum of 500KB per concurrent client
- plus I'd add a good safety margin
So for RAM I'd go for 2GB, or more if you could afford it.
Samba uses CPUs. More CPUs is better. I'd shoot for a 4x CPU (if you can
afford it).
Ethernet: I'd use multiple 1 Gbe controllers each going to fast switches
that fan out to your users.
Disk I/O: For 1000 users you want high bandwidth I/O RAID arrays.
- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org