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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:50:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se>
To:        s9810048@mmu.edu.my
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Versus Linux Revisited
Message-ID:  <200111141850.fAEIoaQ28345@mikko.rsa.com>
References:  <1691.10.100.98.133.1005711863.squirrel@10.100.3.5>

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In local.freebsd.questions you write:

>Hi,

>This article really grap my attention

>http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1794/byt20011107s0001/1112_moshe.html

>And then come to my mind, what I need to do to make my FreeBSD box run to its 
>limit. What should I do to make it really optimize, fast etc..?

Oh, no.  Someone please tell me there is a typo in here somewhere
(from the article, under "System Tuning", in what seems to be
describing parameters for FreeBSD [1]):

 "I also increased the maxusers value. This file sets the size of a
  number of important system tables. Setting maxusers to 4 lets you have
  up to 84 simultaneous processes, which is hardly enough for today's
  busy servers. I increased this value to 20."

20?  GENERIC sets it to 32, and anyone running an even remotely "busy"
will raise it to 128 or 256...

I wonder where the figure "4" came from.  GENERIC in FreeBSD 1.1 set
MAXUSERS to 10, and it has never been lower than that, AFAIK.

Sigh. More useless benchmarks.

  $.02,
  /Mikko

1) In which case it doesn't make sense to describe MAXUSERS as a "file"...
-- 
 Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com
 RSA Security

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