From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 3 21: 2: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344C237B659 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 21:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac9.wam.umd.edu (root@rac9.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.149]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA07791; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 00:01:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac9.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac9.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA06862; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 00:01:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac9.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA06858; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 00:01:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac9.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 00:01:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: grios@consultant.com Cc: jmutter , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Performance Tuning In-Reply-To: <39399865.BB9CF457@tdnet.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG that sounds a little overboard ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: > jmutter wrote: > > > > I'm going to be building a few (several) FreeBSD servers to use in a large > > mail environment. Anyone have any hints or suggestions on what measures I > > might take to ensure peak performance from these boxes? As far as > > hardware is concerned we're probably looking at a PIII/500-700 > > (Whatever is current and available at the time) and a minimum 1G RAM, > > probably 2 to 4. > > > > Thanks, > > Jim > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > 1) Remove everything you dont want from your kernel. > 2) statically link your daemons with a personal version of your libc > (remove what you won't use in your daemons). > 3) softupdates. > 4) SCSI/RAID devices (remove from kernel what you don't want) > 5) write multithread daemons. > 6) rewrite you IP stack, implements a multithread IP stack. > 7) Rewrite you MM subsystem! remove the part that do garbage collection. > you will need to rewrite all you app, for instance pre-allocating all > the necessary memory at startup time, if you do that, be warned about > using re/m/alloc functions....... > 8) .... > 9) .... > 10) Rewrite FreeBSD, design a YOUR-DAEMON-EMBEEDED kernel OS, for > instance, put your FTP in your kernel.... (ok! this is paranoia). This > kernel would, at least, have tools like telnet for you do your maintain > job. > > > -- > Your mouse has moved. > Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect! > > Reboot now? [ OK] > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message