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Date:      Sat, 3 May 2008 01:20:03 +0200
From:      Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Free BSD <freebsd@the-irc.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Server Settings Consult
Message-ID:  <200805030120.05590.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
In-Reply-To: <322efb7b0805020428y5f439fadk4b1beb95d397493@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <322efb7b0805020428y5f439fadk4b1beb95d397493@mail.gmail.com>

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On Friday 02 May 2008 13:28:44 Free BSD wrote:
> We've been having some problems with our server and I was wondering if
> someone had any advice or suggestions for our current system settings.

Would help to know, at minimum:
- ammount of ram
- ammount of cpu's
- platform (uname -m )
- pciconf -lv|grep ^none
- dmesg output that complains about hardware
- what's different about your kernel with respect to GENERIC

What the problems are:
- from the sysctl variables, I'm guessing you want more network performance
- you mention core dumps, does the kernel crash?

Some background:
- what's the primary purpose of the machine
- why are things like ipc tuned?


> kern.maxfilesperproc=65536

The above will only work with programs that use open(2) exclusively and not 
fopen, because fopen is limited to SHRT_MAX, being 32767.


-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.



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