Hi,
Your problem may be more basic than that. A recent benchmarking
study showed that under heavy loads Netware had better performance
characteristics than Linux. Here is a link to it (and the resulting
discussion) :
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/25/1236233&mode=thread
Regards,
Kenneth
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, K Sambaiah wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently replaced one of our Novell file server with Linux and
> samba. I had few performance problems, I would like to know my setup
> is ok or any other setups exist.
> I loaded RedHat 6.1 on a PentiumII machine with partitions / and /home
> of sizes 800MB and 1200MB (apprximately) and swap of 100MB on a IDE disk.
> Since files are big and normal users (except one or two) don't need to
> access the system I run ext2fs as
> $ext2fs -b 4096 -m 1 /dev/xxx
> and in /etc/fstab I put an entry for noatime.
> I created an user xyz and map the user home directory as one of the drive
> from windows explorer->tools->.....
> It is working fine but performance (file opening and closing) is not much
> better than Novell.
> I did all the performance tips given in Samba documentation.
>
> my question is
> 1) Should I use any other file system on /home side so that performance is
> better?
> 2) Will Linux support such a file system?
> 3) Any pointers for performance.
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