Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:43:13 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, "'current@freebsd.org'" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost Message-ID: <3ADC0221.32127C39@DougBarton.net> References: <200104161634.f3GGYZs11356@aslan.scsiguy.com> <200104162146.f3GLkGT82369@earth.backplane.com> <3ADBF9FA.9D1C4DB4@DougBarton.net> <20010417011335.V976@fw.wintelcom.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> I'm figuring the only time when it may be a problem is on machines
> with a small amount of memory. Since memory is cheap, I plan on
> turning it on within the next couple of days unless a stability
> issue comes up.
>
> I'll leave it to those people with low memory to remember to turn
> it off.
OK... this brings up the question of what other cool optimizations are
there that may have been disabled in the past for reasons that are no
longer pertinent? It might be worthwhile to create an /etc/sysctl.conf file
with commented out examples of configurations for various systems. For
example,
# For more modern systems that have a reasonable amount of RAM
#vfs.vmiodirenable=1
# Low memory systems
# Systems that need lots of randomness
# Low resource systems that need less randomness
# Super high performance TCP options for various situations
.... etc. I'm sure y'all can come up with more.
It might also be desirable to put these in etc/defautls/rc.conf, but I
think something of this nature might be better suited in a freer format.
Doug
--
Perhaps the greatest damage the American system of education has done
to its children is to teach them that their opinions are relevant
simply because they are their opinions.
Do YOU Yahoo!?
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3ADC0221.32127C39>