Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 09:50:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Craig Huckabee <huck@mispwoso.nosc.mil> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Optimizing system performance w/ large scale system Message-ID: <199610021350.JAA02274@mispwoso.nosc.mil>
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I've just upgraded one of our FreeBSD servers here to the following
configuration :
ASUS P/E-P55T2P4D motherboard with one P166
512MB of RAM, 512K of cache
3 Adaptec 2940 SCSI controllers
8 2GB drives spread (two to a controller)
1 DEC 20140 based PCI ethernet card (I may switch to a supported FDDI card
soon if I can)
Running 2.1.5-RELEASE
My questions are:
1) With this much RAM are there any special tweaks I should make to the
kernel config file (other than the 'options "MAXMEM=(512*1024)"' line)
to improve performance and get the most out of the machine?
2) Are there any other special tweaks I should consider? This machine will
hopefully provide shell accounts, ftp access, web service, and possibly
POP mail service for a large number of people (>500).
3) What utilities provide the best picture of system performance? I've
used 'top' and I've run 'lmbench' and 'bonnie' before to beat on a system,
but I was wondering what other people use to gauge system performance.
Any advice from any other large FreeBSD sites is appreciated.
Thanks,
Craig
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