Samba and Seq. Read ahead.

2003-03-06 Thread William Jojo
Please don't shoot me for cross posting, but I wanted to share this with everyone. Just thought you'd like to know that I've discovered a very interesting thing about AIX and Samba with respect to Sequential Read Ahead. I had been tracking a number of issues related to performance on my Samba

Re: smbd load of large numbers of client

2003-02-25 Thread William Jojo
well here's the thing. Samba does a great job of managing the PC's and their romaing profiles. Two things you need to consider that I've found in our 800 machine environment. We had a problem with the number of small files and server performance. This is not Samba's fault in any way. We have

limits question

2003-02-14 Thread William Jojo
what do the following values in local.h do with respect to a single smbd or are they absolute limits? please explain... #define MAX_DIRECTORY_HANDLES 2048 #define MAX_OPEN_DIRECTORIES 256 #define MAX_OPEN_PIPES 2048 Thank you! Bill

WinXP-SP1 breaks profiles...

2002-09-25 Thread William Jojo
Just thought you'd like to know that SP1 for Windows XP breaks romaing profiles up to and including 2.2.5. This has been confirmed by MIT at the following link: http://web.mit.edu/swrt/winxp/ See the section Software Compatiblity Test Matix/Testing SP1 We have found this to be the case

Re: Access and Corrupt DB

2002-04-22 Thread William Jojo
Already on the web sitecurrent check out 8:15 EDT this morning...still there :( Bill On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jeremy Allison wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:47:42AM -0400, William Jojo wrote: I'm posting this again. Jeremy, this seems very bad. We are running AIX