-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, My name is Olivier Gaspard, and I work for the CHC Belgium (IT department of differents Hospitals). So, let's me introduce the situation: for the moment, the firm works with Win NT for the users profiles, and Samba 3.0 on Unix platform for the "files sharing". Resuming : Every users having a user (NT) profile (roamming profile) and have a private directory on this Samba server. So, in many case, a lot of directories are created in addition to share documents between differents users. Time after time, sharing after sharing, we have for now more than three thousands sharing on the Samba server!! So, the problem (big for the firm) is that one: every night, we have to reboot the server because of saturation of the samba service. In addition, if we reload the samba.conf during the day (lot of transactions in use), the server crash (100% CPU). My question is that one: Which server(s)/samba(s) architecture we have to applicate for managing all of these sharing concurrently without any crash ;-)! Is it possible to replicate/duplicate/(other) the samba service for resolve the problem? How big enterprise do with managing their samba servers? => Which are the processus/installations to manage with samba lot of sharing? Is better to use samba on AIX or UNIX? If you have examples, contacts or solutions, they are welcome!! Thanks a lot for all that informations and responses, Olivier. - -- Olivier Gaspard <olivier.gaspard@chc.be> Service informatique CHC ASBL <http://www.chc.be> Thanks to avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html (Please use Txt, HTML or PDF attachments) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQ00GFep4JGu/DnsuAQIlBQQAw0UW4xPSRttVkBea9kUPmbynxdppDH6m 75CnMJix865LxogUnjBI2khG5U0k4KCRjwEBAngaRTRX8fHn/XTLhsFz3lU7stLz 78DDNDFzU606mWe0DChq3fbgTp/EePsAex1ccISvCmvEuWBZEnql2oVy59o0zaqQ kBBfYNqA8iA=i+Se -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, first off all upgrade to the last samba Version. It should be no problem which "nix" you use. Take care that theres no bottleneck about nics and switches, bad wiring, firewalling etc. keep care of your storage speed. Use perfomance parameters of samba on the nics. use more nics and bind smb to it. last but not least , use a well organized sharing structure for the files ( is use group shares ) , think of using mirrors via rsync to other samba servers. For more info you have to get in more details i.e which kind of files do you share ....ie. a lot of small files in one directory etc post your smb.conf, what does your samba logs say, have you any antivirus/firewall on the server or on the clients Best Regards Olivier Gaspard schrieb: | Hi, | | My name is Olivier Gaspard, and I work for the CHC Belgium (IT | department of differents Hospitals). | | So, let's me introduce the situation: for the moment, the firm works | with Win NT for the users profiles, and Samba 3.0 on Unix platform for | the "files sharing". Resuming : Every users having a user (NT) profile | (roamming profile) and have a private directory on this Samba server. | So, in many case, a lot of directories are created in addition to share | documents between differents users. Time after time, sharing after | sharing, we have for now more than three thousands sharing on the Samba | server!! So, the problem (big for the firm) is that one: every night, we | have to reboot the server because of saturation of the samba service. In | addition, if we reload the samba.conf during the day (lot of | transactions in use), the server crash (100% CPU). | | My question is that one: Which server(s)/samba(s) architecture we have | to applicate for managing all of these sharing concurrently without any | crash ;-)! Is it possible to replicate/duplicate/(other) the samba | service for resolve the problem? | | How big enterprise do with managing their samba servers? | => Which are the processus/installations to manage with samba lot of | sharing? Is better to use samba on AIX or UNIX? | | If you have examples, contacts or solutions, they are welcome!! | | Thanks a lot for all that informations and responses, | | Olivier. | | -- | Olivier Gaspard <olivier.gaspard@chc.be> | Service informatique CHC ASBL <http://www.chc.be> | | Thanks to avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments | http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html | (Please use Txt, HTML or PDF attachments) | - -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Best Regards Robert Schetterer robert_at_schetterer.org Munich / Bavaria / Germany https://www.schetterer.org \********************************** \* gnupgp \* public key: \* https://www.schetterer.org/public.key \********************************** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDTYqEb0iqzJq+0MgRAmivAKCB+nGlZAj0PskSqnZCDZpCk7SZ9QCcDEFi 5wQomDaczib9KBsGoXoC4WA=P8FU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Olivier Gaspard wrote:> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > My name is Olivier Gaspard, and I work for the CHC Belgium (IT > department of differents Hospitals). > > So, let's me introduce the situation: for the moment, the firm works > with Win NT for the users profiles, and Samba 3.0 on Unix platform for > the "files sharing". Resuming : Every users having a user (NT) profile > (roamming profile) and have a private directory on this Samba server. > So, in many case, a lot of directories are created in addition to share > documents between differents users. Time after time, sharing after > sharing, we have for now more than three thousands sharing on the Samba > server!! So, the problem (big for the firm) is that one: every night, we > have to reboot the server because of saturation of the samba service. In > addition, if we reload the samba.conf during the day (lot of > transactions in use), the server crash (100% CPU). >can you post more details about your system? specifically: - operating system - kernel version (if appropriate) - number and speed of CPUs - quantity and speed of RAM - disk drive details (scsi, ATA, raid, etc.) - filesystem being used> My question is that one: Which server(s)/samba(s) architecture we have > to applicate for managing all of these sharing concurrently without any > crash ;-)! Is it possible to replicate/duplicate/(other) the samba > service for resolve the problem? >with the price of hardware these days, you need to throw hardware at the problem. also, you should consider using reiserFS or XFS for the filesystem your shares are on.> How big enterprise do with managing their samba servers? > => Which are the processus/installations to manage with samba lot of > sharing? Is better to use samba on AIX or UNIX?i'd say AIX is a non-starter unless you have some very special reasons to use it. linux with the 2.6 kernel is very hard to match as a server operating system. also, you absolutely should be using hardware RAID and scsi, and i'd recommend an opteron based system. but that's just me, you could go more exotic (and expensive). regards, henry