From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 2 02:25:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EA7106566C for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 02:25:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3EC48FC17 for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 02:25:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyj12 with SMTP id 12so5173803iyj.13 for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:25:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=qrDxB7rbIXYKfbs7Lif7pusWZZ1vKWzzMJmNFrTy6rw=; b=jPxR/PCFl8wEmG6DJUfgvIGGX8ZMd2v+uBBYwx4q94syeDs5Z1SK2Dev+uha7EsCJ3 vmcNgAKsl/2Xi7JsOknA7dFUVhWwy5FW1yOMMboAY9TMFMYarc+C7gnuRi1EJj+YHji/ glxWHnhAwF0eLqArtbAHcjG7PzRw7Sck8lj+A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=kkpofHkZ62NbHF9avtCDKjJZrsnPrzn/EdgJ3RrGpZR8wO7l5L4YvGn+ciLWhkQDNo UISbgrP9Kjxx//i8ZlxNZzpdrA1ppDgj+c+9Z5M+ClJRNPg9eBSW9PHIhZTsZhojNuK+ QvCvLYRVlMFS/hM5tianLQHtojBJfDMmvuh9g= Received: by 10.42.133.130 with SMTP id h2mr6257750ict.463.1301711114113; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:25:14 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.192.82 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 19:24:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Eitan Adler Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 22:24:54 -0400 Message-ID: To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Subject: tuning a system for a single user X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 02:25:15 -0000 When I look for tuning guides online, or reading tuning(7) I find a lot of guides for tuning a system for multiple users or for specific purposes (web servers, file servers, etc) I am looking for specific tunables that might make the experience of using FreeBSD better. I found the sysctl kern.maxusers but I'm unsure how things affects things. Can I reduce the amount of time, memory, etc the kernel spends enforcing quota, scheduling, etc? I don't have anything particular in mind - just want to get a general set of tunables I might be interested in. -- Eitan Adler