Samba and hardware

[Bill Gradwohl]

Daniel Chénard wrote:

>So, which kind of hardware I need for this purpose: Samba in PDC with
>400 Clients (200 simultaneus clients ?  ( dont ask for the disk space)
>
>Or
>
>How many simultaneus clients can I serve with a Xeon 900Mhz with 2 Gig
>Ram??
>
>  
>
If I put 10 samba uses on a hot machine and they all start doing massive 
disk moves, the cabling insfrastructure or the disk subsystem may limit 
what other folks can accomplish in a reasonable time, so in that case 
the answer is 10.

Your question has so many answers that its somewhat meaningless.

We've got engineering firms with over 100 users running CAD applications 
against 2.4GHz uniprocessor P4's without a problem. The servers are 
idling most of the time. They manipulate huge files too. The reason this 
works is because random human activity prevents them from all doing 
intensive things at the same time.

You'd have to supply more information about what you want to accomplish 
and what your users do to get a better estimate.

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