Subject: [netatalk-admins] Doing Benchmarks (help for tips, tricks, suggestions)
From: Harry Zink (mail-atalk@fizbin.com)
Date: Thu Mar 26 1998 - 16:43:35 EST
Preamble:
At the company I work with, we've been looking for a viable server
solution for a while for our Macintosh support environment. We've run a
crappy Mac (Performa 630) with personal file sharing for a while, with
terrible stability.
We've had a meeting the other day, examing alternate solutions, and
decided on doing a 'shoot-out' between the various solutions. Currently
selected are: Windows NT with Macintosh services, Windows NT using the
DAVE 2.0 client, AppleShare IP 5.0x - and I want to throw a Netatalk
system into this as well to show that Linux/Netatalk *IS* a viable
alternative. One of the department's directors generally just smiles, and
discards anytime I bring up UNIX/Linux based solutions... but mostly I
want to be able to really put netatalk to the test, and possibly even get
us all some real-world benchmarks as a result.
Playing Field:
Mac server will be a G3, 64 megs of RAM, with UltraSCSI card, and drives,
and 10/100 baset-T ethernet card, AppelShare IP 5.0x.
PC will be a compaq with 200MHz Pentium Pro, running Windows NT 4.0
server.
For the Linux box, I have a 233 Cyrix motherboard, with 1 meg cache, 128
megs of RAM, a FAST SCSI card, an IDE drive, and a SCSI drive - running
Red Hat 5.0.
Crieria - all systems need to be able to serve over IP.
The tests:
We will be using several different files - large, single files (300 megs
or more), as well as large folders, with tons of small files (around 300
megabytes).
We will be doing transfer tests from 5 different Macintosh workstations
simultaneously, during peak times, on a loaded network (12 noon, and 9
AM), as well as on a dedicated loop with no other network traffic - so we
get best case, and worst case.
So, I'm asking, since I've read about various problems (notably the
trash-can issue), if any of you can contribute special hints, tips,
tricks, configuration information (even concerning motherboards and
hardware, as I'm willing to out on a limb here), but this is THE
opportunity to demonstrate what this platform, and netatalk can do.
Thanks for all your help.
Harry
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