From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 17 1:57:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B90337B43E for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:57:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3H8vSb49767; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:57:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3H8v1r61551; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:57:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200104170857.f3H8v1r61551@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Doug Barton Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Matt Dillon , "'current@freebsd.org'" , brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: sysctl optimisations (was: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost) In-Reply-To: Message from Doug Barton of "Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:43:13 PDT." <3ADC0221.32127C39@DougBarton.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:57:01 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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!? -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message