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Walt Pesch
To: Bill
Steagall/Chicago/IBM@IBMUS, Chuck Gray/Beaverton/IBM@IBMUS,
03/15/2002 02:12 Curt Loy/Akron/IBM@IBMUS, David
Getzin/Bedford/IBM@IBMUS, Frank
PM Pinkston/Dallas/IBM@IBMUS, Gregory
Kettmann/Bedford/IBM@IBMUS, Jennifer
Clarke/Atlanta/IBM@IBMUS, Jim
Carrigan/Wayne/IBM@IBMUS, Leonard
Santalucia/New York/IBM@IBMUS, Mark
Banda/Los Angeles/IBM@IBMUS, Mark
Murphy/Denver/IBM@IBMUS, Michael
Persell/Dallas/IBM@IBMUS, Ralph
Cooley/Beaverton/IBM@IBMUS, Roy
Greenwood/Santa Teresa/IBM@IBMUS
cc:
Subject: Samba Strategy
Hi gang,
I am right now canvasing interested parties trying to find an answer to a
philosophical issue. One of the plays we are looking at is Server
Consolidation onto Linux, across brands. When I look at Samba though, I
don't have a defined group to interface with (internal, another company,
whatever). At best I have samba.org and some IBMers on the Samba Team who
are making best effort to help.
My problem is that there is no place to go for scaling numbers. How many
print queues can I configure under Linux and at what rate can I spool to
them? (There appears to be no answer to this.) Given any disk array, how
much data can I push out through the pipe? (There are some very limited
answers using a tool called smbtorture.) How do file serving and print
serving interact when run at capacity? And what about when we virtualize
this load, either using z/VM or VMware.
I know the immediate answer, those are great questions and unfortunately we
don't know the answers. So how should we go about getting them? In a
perfect world, I could look at a chart that would answer them for both the
z800 and the x360. From what I can see & verify, we don't even have the
tools to go about answering these questions.
Of course, there is a big deal at Ford that is coming apart since we don't
really know these answers. I am trying to figure out what to do at Ford
but also what should be recommended to be done for the next time.
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Walt Pesch
I/T Architect, RHCE
IBM Americas Linux Team
Cell 773-354-3309
