We are currently booting off of a dos client and pushing the images via samba. We have an HP Proliant server. It has a single Xeon Processor (2.8GHz I think), 1.5GB RAM, and scsi hardware raid 5. It's running Suse 8.2 all on a dedicated lan for imaging (no other clients). We have the server leasing out ip addresses and pushing out a dos client via PXE and atftpd. The server is only running atftp, dhcpd, samba, and sshd. It is not running any other daemons (mail server, xwindows, nfs, etc...).
Anyway, we're using this server strictly for imaging purposes. We're only imaging on average around 100 pc's a day right now, but that is soon to change. If I do more than 20 desktops at a time, the server becomes painfully slow. All those samba processes just hammer the processor and hard drives. Each image is roughly 2-5GB in size and when the server is put under strain they will sometimes only transfer at 100-150MB/min. A "ps aux" on the server can take up to a minute to scroll on the console. Also, the server will stop accepting all network connections when heavily strained. When not under heavy load, the images will usually transfer around 350-500MB/min. It looks like we need a multicast solution. Although, I'm definately open for suggestions. >>> Justin Zygmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/07/04 20:21 PM >>> another way is to create a network boot disk and run it off the samba share. On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Eric Becker wrote: > I'm trying to setup dosemu so that I can run the dos multicast server > from ghost. I'm actually using the supplied freedos instead of msdos. > In my /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf > > $_pktdriver = (on) > $_netdev = "tap0" > $_vnet = "tap" > > If I do an lsmod I can see that tun is loaded. I assume I need to be > loading some kind of dos network driver in freedos??? I can't seem to > get the networking to function properly. Anyway, here's my > results....any help would be appreciated. > > C:\IMAGES\GHOST75>dosghsrv.exe c:\images\common.gho test > > Symantec GhostCast Server for DOS V7.5.0.335 (c) Symantec Corporation > > > Now listening for clients asking for session <test>... > > >>> Press any key to stop accepting clients and start transmission. > <<< > > RMLStartup failed: Network is down. > > C:\IMAGES\GHOST75> > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
