From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 5 19:59:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCEF116A589 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:59:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958C743D45 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:59:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout15/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k95JxDV0018641; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:59:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [17.214.13.96] (a17-214-13-96.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin07/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k95Jx86R000234; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:59:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <45255E55.9020403@squaretrade.com> References: <45254F1D.5000106@squaretrade.com> <45255976.10903@squaretrade.com> <219E170E-5622-4085-90EF-3E2784EFE0AB@mac.com> <45255E55.9020403@squaretrade.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <2F452A27-E526-457D-B17A-979B64B85E42@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:59:07 -0700 To: Paul Lathrop X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAE tuning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:59:14 -0000 On Oct 5, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > Many thanks for your advice. Well, you are most welcome. > Is this information gleaned from experience > or is there an information resource out there that I might utilize in > the future when I deploy other applications? Yes, this information is gleaned from experience (why, yes, I have installed 12GB of RAM into an 8-CPU Sun E4500 myself :-), but also, yes, there are some good resources available. O'Reilly publishes a book called "System Performance Tuning", ISBN: 059600284X which is a decent read, although it is somewhat oriented towards classic Solaris, AIX, & other SysV-derived Unices more than BSD or Linux. Some of the online websites like Anandtech & Tom's Hardware used to have some excellent discussions of BIOS settings, memory configuration and timing, etc, although nowadays those sites are putting so many ads and intrusive Javascript/Flash-based annoyances in the way that their useful content is much harder to find or read than it used to be. (I've stopped going to both sites a few years ago, when the proportion of content to ads dropped below my acceptable signal-to-noise ratio...) -- -Chuck