[ale] file serving

[David Hamm]

Do you think using gigabit over ethernet would have any impact on this?  The 
link between the servers and workstations is gigabit.  
On Friday 20 February 2004 02:32 pm, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> David -
>
> My experience suggests not.  100base-T is going to be the limiting
> factor; you can watch top or whatever when you're blasting files down
> via Samba and see that.  However, if you do a lot of tarball
> manipulation or md5sum checking on your fileserver, then it may well
> matter.
>
> - Jeff
>
> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 14:24, David Hamm wrote:
> > Does anyone know at what point CPU power doesn't help in file serving via
> > SMB. Can you get comparable performance from a PIII as you would a P4. 
> > Is a Celeron slower at serving files than a comparable speed P4?  Any
> > links or suggestions are welcome.  Thanks.
> >
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