Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 18:22:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: helping Wietse help postfix on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010703181912.M8059-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010703230504.02f8fe50@mail.Go2France.com>
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Len Conrad wrote: > I=B4m trying to gather tuning information for Wietse Venema who says: > > "I'm writing a document that describes how to crank up FreeBSD so > that it can run lots of processes, and so that it can handle lots > of connections. > > Right now, these guidelines vary from sysctl, loader.conf, to > recompiling a kernel. This is confusing." Terry posted patches to tunify some of the recompile requiring options, but I don't think anyone's working on getting that committed right now. However, if you're good at shell scripting, you might be able to kill at least one of those problems. I was also recently annoyed by the fact that boot time tuneable sysctls and runtime tuneable sysctls can't be set in a single place. What would be cool is if someone made a script that read loader.conf sometime during startup and set the options which weren't tuned at boot time. This would allow people to throw all sysctls they want to tweak into a single file and make giving out instructions much easier. (I'm assuming that the new script would then be added to the default system startup; otherwise it wouldn't be very useful.) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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