Date: 19 Nov 2003 09:52:08 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Jan Stary <jsta6559@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.1-RELEASE on a machine with 24MB RAM Message-ID: <44oev82yxz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031119135022.GA5051@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <20031119135022.GA5051@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
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Jan Stary <jsta6559@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes: > I am running 5.1-RELEASE on a outdated machine - it's a Compaq > Deskpro 2000, manufactured ~1995, with Pentium/100 and 24MB RAM. > I made a 64MB swap partition. > > I wonder if there are any particular options (systcl vm.* ?) that > I should be intersted in to get the best out of the machine. > > I did sysctl -ae | sed 's/^/#/' >> /etc/sysctl.conf and went > through all of it, but the descriptions (sysctl -ad) didn't > really tell me much. > > The handbook advised me to put MAXUSERS 0 into kernconf, so that > the systems puts a reasonable default value into kern.maxusers. > Is there something more to tweak? > > Is there some documentation about running FreeBSD on a very > lowmem machine? Some discussion of kern.maxusers? That isn't *that* low memory a machine. You may need to tune for specific applications you want to run, but not in general.
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