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Date:      Sun, 4 Jun 2000 00:01:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To:        grios@consultant.com
Cc:        jmutter <jmutter@ds.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Performance Tuning
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006040001420.6668-100000@rac9.wam.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <39399865.BB9CF457@tdnet.com.br>

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that sounds a little overboard


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On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote:

> jmutter wrote:
> > 
> > I'm going to be building a few (several) FreeBSD servers to use in a large
> > mail environment.  Anyone have any hints or suggestions on what measures I
> > might take to ensure peak performance from these boxes?  As far as
> > hardware is concerned we're probably looking at a PIII/500-700
> > (Whatever is current and available at the time) and a minimum 1G RAM,
> > probably 2 to 4.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
> > 
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> 
> 1) Remove everything you dont want from your kernel.
> 2) statically link your daemons with a personal version of your libc
> (remove what you won't use in your daemons).
> 3) softupdates.
> 4) SCSI/RAID devices (remove from kernel what you don't want)
> 5) write multithread daemons.
> 6) rewrite you IP stack, implements a multithread IP stack.
> 7) Rewrite you MM subsystem! remove the part that do garbage collection.
> you will need to rewrite all you app, for instance pre-allocating all
> the necessary memory at startup time, if you do that, be warned about
> using re/m/alloc functions.......
> 8) ....
> 9) ....
> 10) Rewrite FreeBSD, design a YOUR-DAEMON-EMBEEDED kernel OS, for
> instance, put your FTP in your kernel.... (ok! this is paranoia). This
> kernel would, at least, have tools like telnet for you do your maintain
> job.
> 
> 
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