Hi! anyone knows where to get some info for kernel (maybe via sysctl) and or samba tuning for high performance ? I have read all the samba docs available, so aim looking for others tips besides the tcp tunings usually applied in smb.conf ? i am setting a server on a client site, with many clients (about 100), and i am using a real server hardware (an HP netserver with xeon procesor@2.8Ghz, 1Gig of RAm and fast scsi hdds (scsi 320 @ 15krpm). the budget can be stressed out for buying a raid enable server :-) . thanks for all your help. RP ____________________ Ra?l Pitt? Palma Associate Global Engineering and Technology S.A. m?vil. (507) - 616 - 0194
Hi, I'm also very interested in this. I have a similar configuration with even more users (right now I have 50, but it will be increased slowly to more than 300). My server is also a HP Netserver with scsi disks and two network cards. The only thing I've done to increase performance is to setup bonding for the network cards in high availability mode (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/marcelo/linux-2.4/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt) and it works really well. Any info about tuning samba server will be greatly appreciate. Thanks in advance, Fernando. El lun, 16-08-2004 a las 03:26, Ra?l D. Pitt? Palma escribi?:> Hi! > anyone knows where to get some info for kernel (maybe via sysctl) and or > samba tuning for high performance ? > I have read all the samba docs available, so aim looking for others tips > besides the tcp tunings usually applied in smb.conf ? > i am setting a server on a client site, with many clients (about 100), and i > am using a real server hardware (an HP netserver with xeon procesor@2.8Ghz, > 1Gig of RAm and fast scsi hdds (scsi 320 @ 15krpm). the budget can be > stressed out for buying a raid enable server :-) . > thanks for all your help. > RP > ____________________ > Ra?l Pitt? Palma > Associate > Global Engineering and Technology S.A. > m?vil. (507) - 616 - 0194-- Fernando Ruza (fernandor@sescam.jccm.es) Dto. Informatica Hospital Univesitario de Guadalajara Tfl: 949 209 215 661 123 845 Linux user: #273644 (http://counter.li.org) Debian Sid (Kernel 2.4.20 & ext3) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Por favor, NO utilice formatos de archivo propietarios para el intercambio de documentos, como DOC y XLS, sino HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV o cualquier otro que no obligue a utilizar un programa de un fabricante concreto. Gracias.
Ra?l D. Pitt? Palma wrote:> Hi! > anyone knows where to get some info for kernel (maybe via sysctl) and or > samba tuning for high performance ? > I have read all the samba docs available, so aim looking for others tips > besides the tcp tunings usually applied in smb.conf ? > i am setting a server on a client site, with many clients (about 100), > and i > am using a real server hardware (an HP netserver with xeon > procesor@2.8Ghz, > 1Gig of RAm and fast scsi hdds (scsi 320 @ 15krpm). the budget can be > stressed out for buying a raid enable server :-) . > thanks for all your help. > RP > ____________________ > Ra?l Pitt? Palma > Associate > Global Engineering and Technology S.A. > m?vil. (507) - 616 - 0194 > > >Well, your tuning depends on what type of duties the server will perform. If you are looking for fast file serving and moving of data, I would suggest you take a look at our Tips& Tricks page: http://www.convert2samba.com/Tips&Tricks/Samba/Oplocks.htm Also if your underlying file system could make a big difference. For instance the default formatting and mounting of a XFS formatted drive may not give you the best performance. Regards Gerald Drouillard Drouillard & Assoicates, Inc. http://www.convert2samba.com