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You have roughly the same setup as me, I just have more RAM really. I don’t serve AFP from my Xserve I actually have SMB from our primary file storage for imaging Win as well as Mac on a Windows server attached to some SAN.<BR>
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I wonder what Thomas Larkin does, he has a decent sized deployment, and so does Nathaniel, but perhaps they are more distributed.<BR>
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On 9/10/08 5:34 AM, "Criss Myers" <<a href="cmyers@uclan.ac.uk">cmyers@uclan.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>Hi ALL,</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>As you people seem to have many more servers and clients than me I thought you'd be good people to ask about performance.</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>I have 145 clients, being increased by 83.</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>I am using AFP for my distribution port and each mac is getting a total install of about 60gb (final cut studio)</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>I am currently imaging 100 macs and the server is running at 90% cpu and 100% ram and with a throughput of mac 54MB/sec</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>A) is this what i should expect? or is my setup not performing well?</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>B) what kind of setup do you people have to deploy how many macs and how big a deployment size?</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>C) any advice on how to improve my set, more ram, fibre cards, drive setups, more servers?</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>Regards</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> <BR>
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