Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:24:54 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Smirnov Konstantin <sam@rmp.ru> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tuning up FreeBSD - http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108q/ Message-ID: <200112141624.fBEGOsd19051@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:47:35 %2B0300." <16162204675.20011214114735@rmp.ru>
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> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:47:35 +0300 > From: Smirnov Konstantin <sam@rmp.ru> > Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG > > Hello all! > > Look what I've found in > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108q/ > This is recomendation on tuning FreeBSD for higher perfomance when > it's used as the net server. > > ====================== cut ======================== > FreeBSD Tuning Tips > > The following FreeBSD OS tuning tips were suggested to us by readers of our article. > > In single-user mode: > > tunefs -n enable / > tunefs -n enable /usr > tunefs -n enable /var > > Kernel modifications to make -- recompile and install the kernel afterwards: > MAXUSERS 512 > > in /boot/load.conf > hw.ata.wc="1" > kern.ipc.nmbclusters="60000" > in /etc/fstab > > Add to options for all hard disk file systems ",async": > > In /etc/sysctl.conf > vfs.vmiodirenable=1 > kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=2097152 > kern.ipc.somaxconn=8192 > kern.ipc.maxsockets=16424 > kern.maxfiles=65536 > kern.maxfilesperproc=32768 > net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1 > net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 > net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65535 > net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65535 > net.inet.udp.recvspace=65535 > net.inet.udp.maxdgram=57344 > net.local.stream.recvspace=65535 > net.local.stream.sendspace=65535 > ====================== cut ======================== > > What is your opinion? Is that parameters suitable for ALL systems? (I > think, no ;))) Maybe, somebody tried it yet? If it was a good idea on all systems, there would be no tuning to do. The values you suggest are generally a good thing for a fairly fast link. Several of the values you suggest are default and others, like the expansion of send and recvspace are a good idea as long as you are on a fairly fast line to the world. On a slow line, this sort of thing can deteriorate performance. One thing I would certainly add is the expansion of mss to 1460 if you are Ethernet connected. You suggestions also require substantially more memory than the defaults, so it is not a good idea for a system with only limited memory. (Of course, with current memory prices, most systems have no problems in this area!) There are two items I must take issue with. 1. I would not enable soft updates to /. If you use the default partition size for /, it will tend to break the system if you update it. And soft updates on / are seldom a significant improvement since writes to / are fairly limited. 2. If you use soft updates, why are you suggesting that the file systems run async? In combination write cache on the disks, you are really asking for a disaster and the whole idea of soft updates is to allow safe asynchronous disk writes most of the time without risk to file system integrity. Running any system that needs reliability with this combination (write cache on, soft updates, and async) is a true recipe for disaster. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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