From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 3 16:22:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E16137B401 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:22:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 8098 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Jul 2001 23:22:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Jul 2001 23:22:27 -0000 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 18:22:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Len Conrad Cc: , Subject: Re: helping Wietse help postfix on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010703230504.02f8fe50@mail.Go2France.com> Message-ID: <20010703181912.M8059-100000@achilles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Len Conrad wrote: > I=B4m trying to gather tuning information for Wietse Venema who says: > > "I'm writing a document that describes how to crank up FreeBSD so > that it can run lots of processes, and so that it can handle lots > of connections. > > Right now, these guidelines vary from sysctl, loader.conf, to > recompiling a kernel. This is confusing." Terry posted patches to tunify some of the recompile requiring options, but I don't think anyone's working on getting that committed right now. However, if you're good at shell scripting, you might be able to kill at least one of those problems. I was also recently annoyed by the fact that boot time tuneable sysctls and runtime tuneable sysctls can't be set in a single place. What would be cool is if someone made a script that read loader.conf sometime during startup and set the options which weren't tuned at boot time. This would allow people to throw all sysctls they want to tweak into a single file and make giving out instructions much easier. (I'm assuming that the new script would then be added to the default system startup; otherwise it wouldn't be very useful.) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message