From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 3 06:33:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548D616A4CE for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 06:33:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp804.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp804.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 362F743D2F for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 06:33:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pmessri@sbcglobal.net) Received: from unknown (HELO pd) (pmessri@sbcglobal.net@68.125.33.212 with login) by smtp804.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Apr 2005 06:33:58 -0000 Message-ID: <001001c53817$6bad2600$0501a8c0@pd> From: "Pedram M" To: Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 22:36:08 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Subject: FreeBSD Tuning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 06:33:59 -0000 Hi guys, Anyone can give me references or suggestions on what to do tune FreeBSD for a heavily loaded mail server? Any suggestions for kernel tuning, sysctl tuning, network tuning, etc.. will be helpful The machine specs are: Pentium 4, 2.4GHZ 512 MB RAM 80GB IDE Drive I am considering running FreeBSD 4.9, any other suggestions would help. Regards, PD