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. -- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org