Hello, I am just curious...which is faster? Obviously if the machines are the same size and all conditions are equal except for the OS. Regards, Jake Johnson jake@plutoid.com ______________________________________________________________________ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Car Audio, and Performance Parts.
"Jake Johnson" <jake@plutoid.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.56.0307082016260.10847@zeus...> Hello, > I am just curious...which is faster? Obviously if the machines are the > same size and all conditions are equal except for the OS.heh. how 'bout a real world example? Screw all the benchmark crapola - that stuff's got it's place but it's just a word compared to the pictures the real world gives you. I irradicated a w2k advanced server acting as a DC, file and print server, DHCP Server, and exchange server and replaced it with: Slackware Linux 9.0 SAMBA 2.8 - PDC/File/Print w/kixtart logon scripts Postfix (mail server) Open Webmail (uses MySQL Database server on same box) iptables/netfilter - acts as a masquerading firewall for the entire org - appx 35 workstations not counting laptops Apache (running Interchange for the ecommerce engine). All things being the same? It's the same hardware. Their website gets about 300 visitors a day, not much you might say but their a B2B manufacturer. They do a lot of email and OpenWebMail serves as a complete web-based replacement for mACROsFOT Outlook - appointment calenders. contacts and all. They also use ACT - The database that everyone in the org uses is on this machine. They use BusinessWorks - for their Accounting system, etc.. - The folks at BusinessWorks insist it won't work if on a UNIX box for some reason, dunno why. It works flawlessly though. This is the third month they've been up and running, and their CFO asked me a couple of days ago, "Hey Bradley, when I close everything out during the month end in BusinessWorks it used to take about 35-40minutes when the server was a Windows 2000 machine. Now it finishes in about 5-7 minutes. Why is that?" he said. "Because you're running UNIX now instead of some toy operating system from Redmond." For the sake of full disclosure, I must also include that they're only running the ext2 filesystem and not ReiserFS or XFS. Also, This guy used to have to run the month end for the books "At the console of the w2k server" because it took noticably longer if he did it from the workstation in his office - Obviously, since BusinessWorks is a Win16 app (the version their running is anyway) he can't do that any longer. Now I suppose someone is going to jump up and say something like, "But are you running X?" (Answer: Not installed). The only problem I have with SAMBA, operationally, is in things like creating new shares, etc... Workstations connected to the SAMBA Server can't seem to see changes to the environment until they logoff and on again - I'm not talking about just security, but for the most part, any changes to the smb.conf file. Other than that, it just runs and runs and runs.... --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 01/27/03
samba ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake Johnson" <jake@plutoid.com> To: <samba@samba.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 5:18 AM Subject: [Samba] What is faster...windows vs Samba> Hello, > I am just curious...which is faster? Obviously if the machines are the > same size and all conditions are equal except for the OS. > > Regards, > Jake Johnson > jake@plutoid.com > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on > Rims, Car Audio, and Performance Parts. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
How did you setup the Act! folder for sharing? If you can post the share part for that folder I will appreciated. I have a database shared but I want an elegant approach! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Santos Soler MCP, Network+, A+ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Jake Johnson wrote:> Hello, > I am just curious...which is faster? Obviously if the machines are the > same size and all conditions are equal except for the OS.samba is definitely faster. I replaced five Win2k servers at one client's office with a single Linux box running Slackware 8.0 and samba 2.2.8. In addition to Windows file & print services, it this single machine runs a development web site, a fax server (with optional web interface), a mailserver and it also backs up to tape a number of remote production web servers. Even with this additional load, it's still faster than Windows and of course never crashes. Andy
Do you have the comparison with the same hardware? Thanks, Jake On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:07:37AM +0200, INBOX wrote:> samba > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jake Johnson" <jake@plutoid.com> > To: <samba@samba.org> > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 5:18 AM > Subject: [Samba] What is faster...windows vs Samba > > > > Hello, > > I am just curious...which is faster? Obviously if the machines are the > > same size and all conditions are equal except for the OS. > > > > Regards, > > Jake Johnson > > jake@plutoid.com > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on > > Rims, Car Audio, and Performance Parts. > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > >-- Thanks, Jake Johnson jake@plutoid.com ______________________________________________________________________ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on rings, earrings, necklaces, diamonds and other fine jewelry.