LinuxSA Mailing list archives

  From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@richardsharpe.com>
  To  : Nathan Millhouse <nmlinuxsa@voidnet.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:58:34 -0700 (PDT)

Re: SAMBA vs Windows 2003 Server

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Nathan Millhouse wrote:

> 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.

Hmmm, I don't think you can conclude that. Where are you deriving those 
numbers from?

2003, IIRC, was shown to perform at around 13xx MBits/s on an 8-way box 
with 4GB of memory, many GigE adapters and the Alacritech TOEs!

I am sure that Alacritech has drivers for Linux and FreeBSD, and the CPU 
that offloading buys you back on Windows will also be available under 
Linux and FreeBSD. 

If you look at the figures for with and without TOEs, you will see what 
the difference is.

I would expect similar hardware to behave in similar ways, perhaps better 
with Linux/FreeBSD and Samba. Add to that the sendfile support in Samba 
and Linux or FreeBSD and it might get somewhat 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
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com

-- 
LinuxSA WWW: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/ IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
To unsubscribe from the LinuxSA list:
  mail linuxsa-request@linuxsa.org.au with "unsubscribe" as the subject