> 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.
For the SGI systems this has been benchmarked extensively. Indeed Samba was used to set some records if I remember rightly. On S/390x someone probably has to actually go and run benchmark tools. Sounds like IBM just got a homework assignment 8) Alan
