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  From: Nathan Millhouse <nmlinuxsa@voidnet.com.au>
  To  : Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@richardsharpe.com>
  Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:17:07 +0930

Re: SAMBA vs Windows 2003 Server

Thanks for that Richard,

my next question to all of you out there is are these benchmarks to be 
trusted. Server 2003 is shown to perform _way_ faster than the current 
SAMBA releases
anyone know it this is this more smoke and mirrors stuff, or does it 
actually do that much better.

Nathan Millhouse


Richard Sharpe wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Nathan Millhouse wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>after reading an interview done with a Windows 2003 server kernel hacker 
>>(http://www.zdnet.com.au/builder/dotnet/story/0,2000042147,20273997,00.htm)
>>it has left me wondering, how does SAMBA compare with the 2003 server in 
>>terms of SMB performance?
>>I have actually never seen any stat comparisons such as benchmarks 
>>comparing the products.  Anyone know of any?
>>    
>>
>
>There are netbench numbers for a number of products up on www.veritest.com 
>...
>
>I must say that the latest numbers with the Veritest TOE look good on an 
>8-way SMP box, but I know IBM was betting very good numbers on Linux with 
>Samba on a 4-way (more than) a little while ago.
>
>Regards
>-----
>Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
>sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
>
>  
>



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