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Tweaks / Optimizations for XP Pro when acting as a server?

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cw42

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I have an Xp Pro machine (P4 2.4b, 512mb ram) acting as a server for file sharing, a bit of web dev, and as a light game server (cs, bf2) occasionally. Are there any tweaks to get the most out of the system?
 
Not if you're serving Windows clients. I don't know who would want to downgrade SMB/CIFS security in favor of using Samba.

As for Apache, there is nothing compelling about it anymore.
 
Originally posted by: Rilex
Not if you're serving Windows clients. I don't know who would want to downgrade SMB/CIFS security in favor of using Samba.

As for Apache, there is nothing compelling about it anymore.
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What security features does Windows have in their SMB/CIFS implimentation that Samba is missing?
 
Originally posted by: cw42
I have an Xp Pro machine (P4 2.4b, 512mb ram) acting as a server for file sharing, a bit of web dev, and as a light game server (cs, bf2) occasionally. Are there any tweaks to get the most out of the system?
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If you aren't already using gigabit networking, adding a GbE switch and NICs where neeeded would probably be the single biggest performance improvement for file serving.

Next would be the drive subsystem, including splitting the OS and storage drive, adding a storage array, etc. This would then be limited by the networking.

Sometimes tweaking NIC parameters makes a difference.

Adding more RAM can also help -- a lot of RAM can be applied for a file cache, and depending on your usage patterns, it may help. If your applications can use a lot of RAM, then adding RAM could be a big "tweak".

More on the software side, search Microsoft for info on optimizing servers, and while those notes are written for W2K / 2003 servers, many of those tweaks are usable in XP as well.

But if you're going to try such tweaking, it might help to have an important/representative benchmark to use. You'll probably find in many cases that these tweaks don't make much practical difference, as the system isn't badly tuned out of the box.
 
Originally posted by: Rilex
Digital Signing.

And an SMB2 implementation.
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I thought SMB2 was going to be released with Vista.

EDIT: And it looks like digital signing is off by default. Does it work from client to client without a server? How many home users set it up? Seems like it would be a PITA to pass those signatures around to all of the systems...
 
Originally posted by: stash
Wait, you can play CS and BF2 on Linux?
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I'm pretty sure that at least CS has a linux server


nothing like wasting tons of CPU cycles and memory on running a GUI when you don't even have a monitor connected....
 
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