I am looking forward to create more than 1000 shares on a SAMBA server. Is it possible? Are there any known limitations doing so? (number of concurrent access) Thank you for your help. Thierry CONTER
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Thierry CONTER wrote:> I am looking forward to create more than 1000 shares on a SAMBA server. > Is it possible?Yes.> Are there any known limitations doing so? (number of concurrent access)System resource limitations are your main enemy. Make sure that you have sufficient memory (I'd recommend min 1MB per user - plus enough for your system itself) and good disk I/O. Samba likes lots of CPU also. So more CPUs is better. If forced to a decision, 4 x 800MHz CPUS is better than 1 x 3GHz CPU.> Thank you for your help.Hope it helps. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org
Hi, what is the maximum number of shares a samba server can handle? Does this number significantly affect the performance of the server? LLAP, Martin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20030919/e6cd5fb9/attachment.bin
I believe it is 10,000. Perhaps someone from the Samba development team can clarify. Hi, what is the maximum number of shares a samba server can handle? Does this number significantly affect the performance of the server? LLAP, Martin
> what is the maximum number of shares a samba server can handle? Does > this number significantly affect the performance of the server?The largest number of shares I have seen is around 300 plus about 50 printers. It ran Ok. Coming to think of it, I never listed them so I do not know how that would go. The site ran Ok. How many shares do you need? Why do you need them? What happened to keeping things simple? - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:36:40PM +0000, John H Terpstra wrote:> > > what is the maximum number of shares a samba server can handle? Does > > this number significantly affect the performance of the server? > > The largest number of shares I have seen is around 300 plus about 50 > printers. It ran Ok. Coming to think of it, I never listed them so I do > not know how that would go. The site ran Ok. > > How many shares do you need? > Why do you need them? > What happened to keeping things simple?We want to configure a replacement server for a windows machine with about 3000 shares. Unfortunately we can not change these structures. LLAP, Martin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20030919/4f956883/attachment.bin
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Martin Hermanowski wrote:> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:36:40PM +0000, John H Terpstra wrote: > > > > > what is the maximum number of shares a samba server can handle? Does > > > this number significantly affect the performance of the server? > > > > The largest number of shares I have seen is around 300 plus about 50 > > printers. It ran Ok. Coming to think of it, I never listed them so I do > > not know how that would go. The site ran Ok. > > > > How many shares do you need? > > Why do you need them? > > What happened to keeping things simple? > > We want to configure a replacement server for a windows machine with > about 3000 shares. Unfortunately we can not change these structures.I think you will need to try it. Do let us know how it performs. :) - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org