From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 27 13:07:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2668106564A for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:07:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CDEF8FC20 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds12 with SMTP id ds12so4758444wgb.31 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:07:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=NmMMJ6y+5FBcWC7lZgfH2m1vXyteQKTFJMxNmIIskno=; b=Gd3Y3tiYwX58Hh7leR8Nhbyoev70hCSyanjNG2SRFvWKmTs5YItbyN8k887CIQyLcE L7eXJ5nDPdPcMrjugos4P7Zl///O9+n6K4wnXhJW0ku1NuIQSuoBvi4egP59H9N8ftyF wjPsNK7Wct2Vtar978Sl8GZujUycff1ouFqUY= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:x-gm-message-state:content-type; bh=NmMMJ6y+5FBcWC7lZgfH2m1vXyteQKTFJMxNmIIskno=; b=IHvsL3chTthyeikhiAa8Ir7bVkk2Opyuve8VoCx8CtoUiuwvAlxF+tCF6GNnna7EXf MpMV1+FUD0kKrecck0u5VsIxaXdt1XUR6gs3jQEsQbYD2yrQ5IVu5DLywynI3+OEI+NP vF64YiTWerimeZB+9YhAkzpDHpAwUtUPts36bjdYBeoWfG1BF2uYRn9J9uelaKGGaAtx Hr+CUyYcD2Uiu82MQ2ryfzSrfoQvwCl/gOU98IMye5iOBlvzFLWrA9POYj/2virkMTEk VTjUIV4VaovjApwjLC8aObV+XKbT0BGhFBMK2i+qxij+xHj9wxkGb1dcyITyZwrbSygf dO7g== Received: by 10.180.85.70 with SMTP id f6mr27762872wiz.5.1332853627672; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:07:07 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.63.4 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:06:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Eitan Adler Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:06:37 -0400 Message-ID: To: jb X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn59bvUNwtkWmwX1yqipGLu3b6UfDnnPLXt6FfSmafxjipXc3QGf6bMBcoqLS6AyhphKuQu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating the tuning man page X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:07:09 -0000 On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:57 AM, jb wrote: > Kevin Oberman gmail.com> writes: > >> >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Eitan Adler eitanadler.com> wrote: >> > As some of you may know there is/was an effort to rewrite the tuning >> > man page at http://wiki.freebsd.org/SystemTuning . >> > Feel free to email me with any questions. >> ... >> Should tuning include discussion of tuning for power management? Even >> server operators are becoming aware of the need for power management >> and the only really good information on it is mav's excellent wiki >> page. From queries about the subject, most people really don't >> understand the concepts and do the wrong thing. Frankly, FreeBSD does >> the wrong thing by default, as mav pointed out. > > I agree. > The wiki page at > http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption > could be improved as well. > > These are my notes - feel free to include them in tuning(7) and wiki. They *will* get lost in this email. The wiki page is set up so that anyone - even anonymous users can edit it. Please add your notes to the page. -- Eitan Adler