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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:46:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Dragos Ruiu <dr@kyx.net>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, Rajappa Iyer <rsi@panix.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sysadmin article
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010615134528.47461H-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <01061509341402.30671@zyx>

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On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Dragos Ruiu wrote:

> I would heartily endorse having the out of the box FreeBSD install be
> tuned better... 
> 
> Sysadmin can't be knocked for not doing the tuning as running an out of
> the box config is what a vast majority of users do, imho, so their
> performance tests and the poor results from FreeBSD are perfectly valid
> indication of what can be expected without tuning. 
> 
> Softupdates on by default sounds great to me, as I can't think of any
> common situations that would be hurt by it. But I'm sure someone will
> correct me if I'm wrong on this.  Now if we could only speed up SMP
> too... 

Well, I think this is especially true in light of the recent decision to
turn WCE back on by default for IDE.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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