[H-GEN] [Fwd: Samba Server sizing]

[Robert Stuart]

Hi peoples.

I'm gradually moving file serving responsibilities off our Netware
server onto our Samba server.  As such we have a very large number of
open files at any particular time (we have Oracle client and dev SW
running off the server, Office97 etc).

With approximately 100 users likely to be using the machine (as a FS),
I'm wondering about what sort of things I should be tuning - kernel
params etc.
I've already upped the /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max (12K) and file-max
(4k) values.  Should I have more than 12k and 4k?  Is there anything
else I should be worrying about?  What about process number limits?   I
found in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/tasks.h a line
#define NR_TASKS 512
Is this the max nr of processes I can have on my Linux machine?  

I noticed that if I do a logon script with samba to map drives etc, it
uses a separate smb process for every map, but if I use windows explorer
to map multiple drives it doesn't.  Does anyone have any comments on
this - obviously I'd like to stick to one process per machine (and one
TCP connection) unless someone can tell me there is some sort of
performance benefit from having multiple smb sessions/tcp connections.

So far the machine is behaving fine on 128MB RAM.

BTW, I tried to send this to the general list a week ago and it didn't
want to get posted...

TIA

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Robert Stuart
Ph  61-7-3864 0364