What about SuSE? I'm trying to store AVI files on my Suse box.
I'm this absolute noob with Suse 9.2 and Samba 3.09 trying to get it
all to work reliably, and I have some problems. Of course, my problems
are rather more interesting, or should I say, esoteric.
Um, the most obvious symptom is copying stuff to the RAID array from a
WinXP workstation. Like tonight I picked a folder full of big files
and did a drag'n'drop copy into a test folder on a Samba share on the
linux box. I tried to copy 2.94GB of stuff. After 15-20 minutes, it
died, like it always does, with "The specified network name is no
longer available." It had copied 1.714GB worth. If you start again, it
will just continue. If you use a smarter tool that does retries, you
can click the OK button on the error and it will just take off where
it left off as if nothing had happened.
I'm also trying to run a DLink 320 media server against content both
on a Windows workstation and server shares mapped to drive letters on
that workstation. The media server at times acts like the folders are
present but empty, but then you look again and it's all there.
Watching network activity and the access lights on the drives, there's
a lot of net activity before the drives get busy. Then they're both
really busy for the longest time, then the network lights stall for a
long time and the drive continue to grind away. The network channel on
the switch will light up for periods while the drives keep busy. But
every once in a while the drives will make a noise like a recalibrate
and just stop (access lights go out) for 5-10 seconds).
The server is a PIII-500mhz with 352mb of RAM. Yeah I know, but it's
all I have. The RAID controller is a Compaq SmartArray. It signs on as
a SmartArray 3200 in the BIOS but the configuration software (Which
only runs in Win2k) thinks of it as a SmartArray 2P or 2D. I have one
channel from the card cabled to a five drive array and another channel
cabled to a three-drive array. All the arrays are populated with
10,000RPM 18gb drives. Benchmarks running against this thing are so
slow to write, 2.1 mb/s, reads are more like 11-12 mb/s on sequential
reads, 22mb/s on random reads.
I wonder about a lot of things: People have suggested that name
services, being UDP, are getting swamped by the TCP traffic and the XP
workstations lose track of where the linux box is. So I edited LMhosts
on the XP workstations and added an entry for the linux box, with the
#PRE directive, so it would be precached.
That made no difference that I can tell.
Another thing I wonder about is whether I need a special driver for
the RAID controller for SuSE or any other Linux. If I run lspci it
says it's an "Unknown mass storage controller: Compaq Computer
Corporation Smart-2P RAID Controller." But it found the logical array
configured on it without any special help.
So what's left: Not enough memory? Too dang slow at 500mhz? I have a
parameter in smb.conf that's intended to provide write caching for a
particular share, but I can't tell if it helped any: Write Cache size
= 393216. I had it a 256k and that didn't help much either.
Running ifconfig shows no errors of any kind on the eth0 interface,
and no traffic on any other.
So, who's got an idea?
-Tom
--- In [email protected], Jaqui Greenlees
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- Chad Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > jps8008 wrote:
> > > I'll try that Chad thanks. Do you know of any
> > versions/distros that
> > > are capable of running .avi video files right out
> > of the box - with no
> > > assembley required? -Jay.
> >
> > Yes. Gentoo, as long as you include all of the use
> > flags that refer to
> > windows codecs when you're installing software like
> > xine. I wouldn't,
> > however, recommend Gentoo to somebody who's very new
> > to Linux, unless
> > they're very patient and willing to learn.
> >
> > Chad Martin
> >
>
> I agree, gentoo, debian, slack, lfs are not for people
> new to linux.
> red hat, xandros, mandrake are much easier to work
> with for new users.
>
> Jaqui
>
> support your local resource reallocation specialist, keep the
dumpsters unlocked.
>
> plain text files only. m$ .doc not readable.
>
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