Hi, After some thought, I decided to do what Swat does in cleaning up my smb.conf and only having in there the functional lines.
This was done before a massive render kicked off last night. My observations, but fist my env; -4xRH7.3/8.0 Duel Zeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ram file servers running Samba 2.2.7 and SGI_XFS 1.1-1.2 file system at .7TB-1TBGB each. -pure gig-e network using Foundry FastIron3 -flat single vlan network, pure TCP/IP with larger than default TCP window size (256K). -mixed MacOSX/Linux/Winblowz OS -60 proc render farm as well as using ~30 client desktops as they are mixed duel Athlon/duel Zeon no less than 2GHz/1-2GB ram. Results, after trimming down the phat in smb.conf to bare minumum, render times decreased ~25%. The bases of this is that just about every night, we render the same amount of stuff so I am comparing apples to apples. I don't have time to do a thourough bench mark of file xfer times but more later. I keep tight controls and observations of the infra structure so nothing else new was introduced and nothing else changed (using ethereal, mrtg, and other snmp and web based network managment stuff, and tcpdump ofcourse :). Just wanted to give you all the skinny as I am pretty delighted. Bri- __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
