On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 07:48:28AM -0400, Kevin Flanagan wrote: > > > > > > A mix. In terms of bulk, the 370 MB and 1+ GB images are the heavy > > hitters, the CAD and related files and < 1 MB are much the higher number > > of files. > > > > It sounds like with several >300MB and >1GB files you will need lots of > cache, that means a lot of RAM in the computer that serves up the files, > no matter what it is. When I say a lot, I mean about a Gig, not a huge > cost.
Kevin, I'll just pick on this part of your message. This, for the moment, may be the most valuable part of this conversation. At present, I am running a GHz Athlon as the primary server, which is responsible for mail, Samba, files, whatever. However, a quick look at Top tells me that I am badly short of memory, since I seem to have 256 M installed. I suspect that I could improve performance in this environment fairly significantly by throwing memory at the system, even before I buy / build the file server that I have been asking about. A couple of months ago, I added Gigabit network cards to the Win2K machines, as well as the server, with the hope of improving data movement around the office. However, it seems that I may have overlooked something! ;-) > Good luck! Thank you, > Kevin The saga will continue. Brian -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
