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Re: Login nightmare



We've been experiencing something similar- have you checked in Server Admin to see how many AFP connections you have? Depending on your hardware (we have dual G5 2GHz xserve with 2GB and 500GB drives) somewhere around 75 connections things start to get ugly. And it doesn't seem to matter if they are real or show as disabled/sleeping. Also, FWIW, I've been told that running Windows services (even if not heavily used) can cut the AFP capacity in some hardware configs, mostly PPC I think. YMMV

Allegedly better hardware and/or the universal version of Tiger server should increase the number of connections before things go south, though disk I/O could be the next bottleneck, followed by network bandwidth. Network Home Redirection helps with disk I/O and bandwidth to a point, but...

We are going to move student accounts to a new Intel xserve replica to see if that helps. If disk I/O becomes the problem, then we'll investigate an xserve RAID. At least, that's the plan.

If your situation is substantially different, then you can ignore the above. Good luck.

email@hidden on January 23, 2008 at 10:55 AM -0600 wrote:
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:37:12 -0600
From: Nick Kutzko <email@hidden>
Subject: Login nightmare
To: <email@hidden>
Message-ID: <C3BBB018.102F%email@hidden>
Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="US-ASCII"

Our users are taking anywhere from 2-5 minutes to login through OD.  I have
tested users, groups, computers, the servers and I'm totally lost.
Sometimes, they don't even get logged in for half of a class period.  My
account logs in quickly, less than 30 seconds, and when I tested users
individually they were equally fast.  However, come class time when they all
try to log in (25 kids, roughly) it lags or locks up.  Any suggestions?  I
tried using a folder redirect through WGM, but it doesn't seem to help.

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