From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 21:31:25 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 2B9F816A4CE for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:31:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from aeimail.aei.ca (mail.aei.ca [206.123.6.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D19043D2F for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:31:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from premi@altern.org) Received: from [10.0.0.1] (dsl-150-31.aei.ca [66.36.150.31]) by aeimail.aei.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9ULVG77016417; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:31:17 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4183BD37.5090007@centtech.com> References: <0327434A-26F4-11D9-A907-0030658DC702@altern.org> <417E54E9.7030401@centtech.com> <4183BD37.5090007@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <071D7376-2ABB-11D9-90C5-0030658DC702@altern.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "R. Payette" Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:31:15 -0400 To: Eric Anderson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) 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: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:31:25 -0000 > > 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 ). > 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 ACPI disabled by blacklist. Contact your BIOS vendor. but kldstat says acpi.ko is loaded. Is it safe to disable it ? Thanks again for your time