On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 15:40:56 Anton Aylward wrote:
Lynn said the following on 10/15/2011 03:17 PM:
I'll have to run both Samba and NFS on the server. I'll start another thread to ask for help with performance issues I have with this.
I do. On an old Dell single core with 512M of memory which also runs my DNS, DHCP and backup, and never seems to get a load factor over 1.5.
Stuffing packets down a network is not a big job; back in the late 90s we had routers handing multiple T1s with filtering using the old '386 chips of that era; I ran an ISP with a rack of Telebit doing that; better price performance than Ciscos back then!
In fact a 'headless server' can perform quite well; UNIX grew up on processors a lot less capable than we have today (think of PDP-11s) running text mode, doing things like text editing and formatting. A PDP-11/45 + 4M memory with a couple of 10M drives could support a legal department at Bell labs say 40 concurrent users.
Thanks. There may be hope yet: My server is an old amd 64bit with a 500G disk and 2Gb memory. It serves 20 opensuse and ubuntu clients. There is nothing state of the art about it. There are second hand daisy chained switches and 10 year old dell boxes as clients. My backup is 2 70 Euro each 1000Gb usb drives and I use Dropbox to save /etc from the server just in case. There is nothing on the clients apart from the operating system. I've just switched from NIS:NFS to LDAP:NFS-CIFS. There are hundreds of LDAP searches occuring every minute which is what may be slowing things down. Must get that fixed first. Any ideas most welcome. THanks L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org