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From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Performance tuning on -stable for a dummy :)
To: Rob <rob@pythonemproject.com>,
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The version of FreeBSD you're running makes a BIG
difference.  The list will need to know that first. 
Also, what sort of load are you putting on this server
and how?

jmc

--- Rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I ran into my first FreeBSD stock limitation.  Ran
> out of mbuf.
> 
> I'm running a Freenet server on an Asus A7V8K with
> Athlon 2400+ and 1
> Gig ram, plus two 15krpm SCSI 160 drives.
> 
> I read the tuning man page and went back through
> alot of the email
> archives, but there is a lack of practical examples.
>   This is the only
> one I found:
> 
> kern.ipc.nmbuffers=65536
> kern.ipc.maxsocbuf=2097152
> kern.ipc.somaxconn=8192
> kern.ipc.maxsockets=16424
> kern.maxfiles=65536
> kern.maxfilesperproc=32768
> etc,etc
> 
> What is a good /boot/loader.conf for a someone like
> me?  I don't totally
> understand all of the tunables.  Is there a good URL
> with info?  The
> mailing list archives were mainly theoretical and
> beyond my
> understanding.  
> 
> Thanks,  Rob.
> -- 
> -----------------------------
> The Numeric Python EM Project
> 
> www.pythonemproject.com
> 
> 
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