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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