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 ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > 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. > > > -- > Your mouse has moved. > Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect! > > Reboot now? [ OK] > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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