From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 9 19:05:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00445 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 19:05:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA00419 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 19:05:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wbGHi-0004sq-00; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 19:03:46 -0700 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 19:03:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Brian Reichert cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tuning for a file server? In-Reply-To: <19970609181845.03139@numachi.numachi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Brian Reichert wrote: > I know there was recently a grumble about having stock recipies > for kernal configurations, but I had an actual question, or rather, > a request for pointers: > > I'm planning on putting together a monster file server (a half-Gig > of memory or more, many Gig worth of drives) and was curious about > peoples' suggestions about tuning the kernal to avoid various > bottlenecks. > > It's only a P-133 triton II motherboard, and I'm planning on two > PCI SCSI adaptors, but I've made no decisions or specifics beyond > that. Triton II boards normally max at 256MB of ram, so I'm not sure how you'd put 512MB+ into one of these boards. What kind of fileserver? NFS? I don't think you can wrong with a faster CPU then, as NFS normally operates synchronusly. How many clients? > I am subscribed to -hackers, but feel free to respond to me directly. > > Thanks... > > -- > Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert reichert@numachi.com > 37 Crystal Ave. #303 > Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path > > Tom