Samba performance advice

[Stewart Williams]

Hi,

I am looking for a bit of advice on performance issues serving files 
with my FC4 samba server.

The specs of my server are: 2.8ghz cpu, 1gb mem, IDE udma 100 (raid 
mirror), 100Mbit NIC & Network.

I am serving 4 users and and a few gigabytes of data, which includes:

A 300mb QuickBooks file (in constant use)
2 users' Outlook .pst file @ about 1gb each (in constant use)
2 users' Outlook Express files at about 1gb each (in constant use)
Various files including some photoshop files @ around 40-50mb each

When all 4 users are working, the file access performance reduces 
dramatically, and is very slow.

What I am asking for is a bit of advice as to whether I am try to serve 
to much data from the one PC.

Also is there anyway to monitor or find statistics of the amount of data 
being served or the performance of the network card?

I'm sorry if this is a bit off topic for the list, but I am new to the 
server side of things.

Many thanks.

		
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