On Wednesday 23 July 2003 00:14, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:[...]I have been researching Samba in efforts to slowly replace our current Novell Netware servers. Is anyone currently using Gentoo in
such a production environment serving roughly 1000 users?
In my experience, Samba is not a good choice for anything resembling heavy load, mostly due to the resources required to simulate filesystem features that are native to Windows. I've had serious load and response-time problems in a 20-user setting with a few 100 GB of data shared through samba, most of these came from the continous directory rescanning Samba need to do in order to provide file-change notification to connected clients.
Chuckle. Tell that to the people running 10,000 user setups on SAMBA with nothing but praise and admiration for the software. You could search samba-technical or the samba users mailing lists for evidence. Granted I'm not aware of anybody using Gentoo in this large of an environment however I maintain SAMBA quite faithfully around here and see absolutely NO reason why it shouldnt make you equally as happy as the Admins running large sites are with it.... Of couse SAMBA is not point-and-click-ware and there are a boatload of configuration parameters.
Donny.
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