From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 1 14:35:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B3F16A4D0 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:35:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE9443D2F for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:35:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id iA1EZu6u008224; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 08:35:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <418649BF.40306@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 08:35:43 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041025 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "R. Payette" References: <0327434A-26F4-11D9-A907-0030658DC702@altern.org> <417E54E9.7030401@centtech.com> <4183BD37.5090007@centtech.com> <071D7376-2ABB-11D9-90C5-0030658DC702@altern.org> In-Reply-To: <071D7376-2ABB-11D9-90C5-0030658DC702@altern.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk buffer / memory utilization X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:35:59 -0000 R. Payette wrote: >> >> I'm not sure you'll really get rid of the 14M Buffers, but you might >> be able to reduce them - what does: >> sysctl kern.maxusers >> report? >> >> Is this box solely for compiling? Or is it an NFS server, or web >> server, etc? >> > > used to be 32, after reading tuning, I reduced it to 16. No, if not > mainly for compiling, I build world, kernel and ports on it. It's main > usage is a nat router for our dsl connexion, and a webserver with mysql > for a small web site ( 10 visit / day maximum ). Ok, well, running mysql is going to gobble up some memory, so beware of that. For that little amount of visits per day, I think I'd check into another db system, something that is less memory hungry (Berkely DB?). >> From what I see, there is probably still some stuff that can be >> removed. Do you need eisa support? NFS? MSDOSFS? IPV6? >> > > I just removed eisa, msdosfs and ipv6 but I need nfs. After recompile > and reboot, I gained a little bit and here is the ps -auxw > http://massonerie.kicks-ass.org/psauxw > > also, the 12th line of dmesg says : > http://massonerie.kicks-ass.org/dmesg Your site was not coming up for me, so I can't tell. > ACPI disabled by blacklist. Contact your BIOS vendor. > > but kldstat says acpi.ko is loaded. Is it safe to disable it ? yes, you can turn off ACPI (in /boot/loader.conf) safely. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ------------------------------------------------------------------