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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:09:19AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Mike Silbersack wrote:
> > Rather than a tuned configuration, what would be useful is
> > a script that would evaluate a system and give tuning hints.
> > This might be simple for someone familiar with shell scripting
> > or perl.  It could do something like:
> 
> [ ... Eliza program for FreeBSD ... ]
> 
> Doing this is non-trivial.  Many of the things they should
> have tuned can not be tuned except at compile time.

And Mike did not imply this tuning could be done without recompiling.
As a matter of fact, one of the suggestions in his example involved
the words 'change to X and recompile'.

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
I've heard that this sentence is a rumor.

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