I know this is off the Perl subject, but one last comment. There is a
MS Knowledge base article "Q130914" covering registry size and SAM size.
I have performed stress testing on the new PDC and BDCs with cloned
images on a dark network and received good results with a SAM of around
65MB. The hardware was PII 233 with 128MB RAM. I used the
"Win32::Authentication to stress test a loop of authentications. It
handled 1000 auths in 39 seconds. I also used Perl to create 1000
groups with 500 users in each group which took 11 hours to finish but
completed successfully. Ok, I will shut up about the NT stuff.
Eric Greenwood
Enterprise Technical Architect
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Subject: RE: Lanman WTS featurs FYI
Ed,
I thought the maximum size for the SAM is 40 MB. You mean that the PDC
and
the BDC do not have the same default maximum size SAM? If so, that seems
to
have been a bad idea on MS part.
Regards,
Joe Moore, Systems Administrator
VERTEX Solutions
Learning Architects for the 21st Century
803 West Broad Street, Suite 200
Falls Church, VA 22046
http://www.vertexsolutions.com
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> From: Eric Greenwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:43 PM
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> Subject: Lanman WTS featurs FYI
>
>
> This is just a FYI if your planning to use the Lanman module
> for adding any
> WTS features to user accounts.
>
> I recently wrote a Perl script to add an entry into the
> "Windows Terminal
> Server Home Directories" field for approximately 12500 user
> accounts on a
> NT4 PDC. This was the PDC for a worldwide corporation with
> BDCs located at
> all remote sites. Since this PDC was not a WTS, the fields
> for WTS in the
> SAM schema must have not been present; consequently, the SAM
> database grew
> extensively. I started with a 25MB SAM and ended with a 63MB
> SAM and the
> only data I added to the field was "D:\homedir". However,
> each addition
> added around 3.04KB of data per user account. Normally, this
> is not be a
> problem and would happen whether you are using Perl or the
> Terminal Server
> User Manager. My problem with this situation existed on the
> BDCs with their
> maximum registry size set around 30MB. When the PDC started
> replicating the
> SAM to all the BDCs, they began to crash. Each BDC had to
> have the maximum
> registry size reset (I used 100MB). So, before you make any
> mass changes,
> such as I did, make sure prepare for an increased registry size on the
> Domain Controllers.
>
> Eric Greenwood
> Enterprise Technical Architect
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