From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 17 14:27:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chain.freebsd.os.org.za (chain.freebsd.os.org.za [196.7.74.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F2610E67 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:27:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za) To: (original recipient in envelope at chain.freebsd.os.org.za) X-Disclaimer: Contents of this e-mail are the writer's opinion X-Disclaimer2: and may not be quoted, re-produced or forwarded X-Disclaimer3: (in part or whole) without the author's permission. Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.freebsd.os.org.za (8.9.3/8.9.3/smtpfeed 0.91) with ESMTP id AAA04055 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:27:22 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:27:21 +0200 (SAST) From: Khetan Gajjar Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Kernel options really necessary ? In-Reply-To: <19990217222135.27302@cicely.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. Question : my personal workstation is a web server (light hits), DNS server (again, almost non-existant hits as primary for a few zones) and mail server (secondary MX for my production machine; hardly used). It's basically used as a X windows workstation. Are the following kernel settings necessary/optimal for a P200 with 98MB of RAM ? (this is included to "enable" efficient usage of the 512kb motherboard cache) options "PQ_LARGECACHE" #enable 512kb+ l2 cache support (the impression I got was that the larger this number was, within reason, the better the performance) maxusers 256 (I don't know actually why this is in here) options "NMBCLUSTERS=4096" (to enable good/efficient disk utilisation) options SOFTUPDATES (to enable bus mastering of my IDE drives) controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 flags 0xa0ffa0ff --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za FreeBSD enthusiast * http://www2.za.freebsd.org/ Security-wise, NT is a OS with a "kick me" sign taped to it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message