Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:57:01 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, "'current@freebsd.org'" <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: sysctl optimisations (was: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost) Message-ID: <200104170857.f3H8v1r61551@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> of "Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:43:13 PDT." <3ADC0221.32127C39@DougBarton.net>
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> 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.
I would have thought a bunch of comments in /etc/sysctl.conf would
be sufficient.
> 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!?
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