From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 10:15:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA23551 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:15:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23527 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:14:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA00722; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:11:33 -0800 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:11:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Carl Joel Kuzmich cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd kernel In-Reply-To: <310E6FD7.41C6@vms.cis.pitt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Carl Joel Kuzmich wrote: > Hi all > > I'm having a hard time figuring out just what should and should not be in my kernel.... It is a WWW server "only" running the Netscape Commerce Server.... > yet something just does not seem right..... > > When several people hit the machine simultaneously it just comes to a complete halt... ie... if I telnet to the machine with no one else logged in and no one > is accessing a web page the machine will at times freeze???? That doesn't sound like a kernel problem, more like a hardware failure. What do youhave in the machine? (cpu, disk, controller, ethernet card, etc.) > Is there a set of items that should be in this kernel to improve performance....????? And if so what should these be set too????? More like things you should take out. > Do you have any settings that you would suggest as a starting point???? Devices that don't exist, for starters. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major