Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:33:30 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> To: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@ns.aus.com> Cc: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, alfred@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tuning for samba Message-ID: <3D2D34CA.56306E9F@pantherdragon.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207111801510.5985-100000@ns.aus.com>
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Richard Sharpe wrote: > > 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. At over 4MB per process (4252K each on my server), I should hope that most of it is already shared. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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