Samba performance advice

[Stewart Williams]

Stewart Williams wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a bit of advice on performance issues serving files 
> with my FC4 samba server.
>
> The specs of my server are: 2.8ghz cpu, 1gb mem, IDE udma 100 (raid 
> mirror), 100Mbit NIC & Network.
>
> I am serving 4 users and and a few gigabytes of data, which includes:
>
> A 300mb QuickBooks file (in constant use)
> 2 users' Outlook .pst file @ about 1gb each (in constant use)
> 2 users' Outlook Express files at about 1gb each (in constant use)
> Various files including some photoshop files @ around 40-50mb each
>
> When all 4 users are working, the file access performance reduces 
> dramatically, and is very slow.
>
> What I am asking for is a bit of advice as to whether I am try to 
> serve to much data from the one PC.
>
> Also is there anyway to monitor or find statistics of the amount of 
> data being served or the performance of the network card?
>
> I'm sorry if this is a bit off topic for the list, but I am new to the 
> server side of things.
>
> Many thanks.
>
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I have also been getting  some weird problems/corruption with accessing 
the Outlook Express *.dbx files from the Samba server.

Would imap be a more suitable solution, and would a machine of this spec 
handle the 4 users ok?

		
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