[ale] file serving

[Jeff Hubbs]

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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