> We're using Redhat Linux 6.2 and Samba 2.0.7 for our file server. It is driven
>by an Intel Pentium III 900Mhz processor, 128MB PC133 DIMM, and RAID1 (40GB 5400rpm
>IDE). We have an average of 30-40 active connections. Users workstation is mostly
>Intel Pentium III 900Mhz with 128MB memory and connected via 10mbps Ethernet.
>
File access is not that heavy, but the files can be quite large, 100Kb to 30Mb. A
software being used by production directly accessed hi-res images in TIFF format or
.tif file. We also have postscript files that are being extracted from the server to
a local PC for distilling. The average size is about 100-200MB and sometimes goes up
to 1.5GB.
>
> Users are complaining that the server is going very slow whenever a large file
is taken out or during peak hours where a lot of users are accessing the server all at
the same time. Based on the result of the "top" command, I have only 3.5 to 3MB left
on my memory. What I'm doing is just restart the samba and everything goes back to
normal.
>
> The problem is that this is happening almost once or at least twice everyday.
We have another file server with Redhat 7.2 and Samba 2.2.1 same processor, but have a
RAID5, 5400rpm IDE hard disk and 256MB DIMM PC133 memory. This too is having the same
problems as the first one.
>
> Is 128MB enough for our file server or is there something wrong with the
configuration of our Linux? Is RAID really adding that much load to the CPU usage, I/O
operation and memory considering that the disks are controlled by the motherboard
and/or processor? Do you have any hardware recommendations or softwares needed to be
install on our samba files server?
Regards,
Joseph S. Raymundo
SPS SYSTEMS ENGINEER
SPI TECHNOLOGIES INC.
(632) 855-8756
(632) 853-2773/4 (fax)
URL : http:www.spitech.com/ <spitech.com>
Email : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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