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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@ns.aus.com>
To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>
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Subject: Re: tuning for samba
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On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote:

> Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> > > Samba uses a seperate process for each connection, and Windows opens
> > > one connection per share.
> > 
> > Yes to the first claim, no to the second. Most definitely not. For a
> > single client, windows puts all share access (net use, mounting, whatever
> > you want to call it) over the single TCP connection to the server.
> 
> You're right, sorry.  I had gotten mixed up on the multiple connection
> issue because of my own configuration that results in one share per
> connection.
> 
> > Nope, ~700 connections!
> 
> Even with just one connection per machine, though, you're still going
> to have a significant amount of swappable memory in idle smbd
> processes.

Yes, I agree. Something that I would like to do more about by making sure 
that as much as possible is shared.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org, 
sharpe@ethereal.com


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