Subject: Re: netatalk in production environments....(Netware and Stuff...)
From: Marcus Radich (marcus@darena.co.nz)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 06:33:09 EDT
At 1:36 am -0400 8/6/2000, Bryan Stalcup wrote:
>So what other 'bits' besides the Lancewood motherboards do you recommend?
>
> > Concerning server speeds, we have found through extensive tests that
> > you can build Linux/netatalk boxes which out perform ASIP, WinNT, and
> > Win2000 by a significant margin. PCs are about getting the 'bits'
> > (Processor, Motherboard, Ethernet etc) to work properly together. We
> > have struck a formula with Intel Lancewood motherboards and various
> > other parts which work very well as a Linux/netatalk server. The same
> > hardware running WinNT or 2000 performs very well, but not as well as
> > netatalk
>
>---
>bryan stalcup
>bryan@stalcup.net
No problem.
Hardware:
-Intel Astor II Chassis
-Intel Lancewood Motherboard (440GX based, Onboard Ultra2 SCSI, Video etc)
-Intel Pentium III 600 Processor (Single only)
-Sony IDE CDROM
-IBM 7200 RPM Ultra66 Boot disk (IDE)
-IBM 10,000 RPM SCA2 Drive (SCSI to fit into the Astor II - use
software RAID if required)
-Asante 10/100 ethernet controller (Or other 'name brand'
Digital/Intel 2114x based card)
(Use cards which are driven by the 'tulip' kernel module. The onboard
ethernet on the Lancewood is the only exception - seems to work fine.)
- 128MB of RAM
- Use high quality cables (including CAT 5 patch leads and internal ribbons)
Software:
- Red Hat 6.1 (Custom install, with everything on)
- netatalk 1.4b2+asun2.1.4 - 37b
- Turn off all surplus services (httpd, named, innd, nfsd etc..)
- Close down surplus ports in /etc/inetd.conf
- Used fixed IPs, don't use DHCP or any other 'lazy admin' tools
- Turn off PAPD until it is fixed.
I don't use any other distro than RedHat, this one seems the best for
this type of server.
When you do a '/usr/sbin/haparm -tT /dev/sda' on this machine, you
should get 130MB/sec across the motherboard, and 30MB/sec off the
drives.
mrad01
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"Always ask the question, never assume the answer."
Marcus Radich 1999
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