From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 3 9:38:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ancmail1.state.ak.us (ancmail1.state.ak.us [146.63.92.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1882437B422 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 09:38:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian_raynes@dnr.state.ak.us) Received: from dnr.state.ak.us ([146.63.110.115]) by ancmail1.state.ak.us (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GCRQ8100.30N; Thu, 3 May 2001 08:38:25 -0800 Message-ID: <3AF18949.9F14549C@dnr.state.ak.us> Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 08:37:29 -0800 From: Brian Raynes X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: robert@mpe.mpg.de, freebsd newbies Subject: Re: Survey on tuning facts. References: <200105031347.f43DlES30960@robert2.mpe-garching.mpg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Robert Suetterlin wrote: > I was wondring how many newbies know about this fact, how many of us have done it, how we found out and if there are other tuning facts we should care for. I for one knew, from lurking in freebsd-questions, the OpenBSD FAQ, the FreeBSD manual. These are places I can remember reading about it. It has usually been in the faqs under "Why doesn't *bsd use async mounts (like linux does)?" I was newbie enough not to know what async mounts are or to have run into a noticeable difference until I read through the faqs. I'm not sure about any other tuning tips for newbies. I imagine that the O'Reilly book on the subject might apply to freebsd though. I think that the OpenBSD faq has a section on tuning, but I don't think they're all that newbie oriented, even though their FAQ is well written. As far as that magnitude of improvement, I'm still unaware of any, even after extensive reading. > Have any of You found other tuning parameters that increased the speed of their machine by an order of magnitude? If so, please tell me, or tell me where to read about it. > Sincerely, > > Robert S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message