Tuning A FreeBSD Box For High Performance

flynn_nrg writes: "www.daemonnews.org has an interesting article explaining how to fine tune your FreeBSD for maximum performance. In it's default state, a FreeBSD box is tuned for stability and reliability, but more often that not you want to get the most out of you BSD box, specially web servers. Nice article if you ask me."

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man 7 tuning

[wd123]

On modern (4.3+) FreeBSD systems, the tuning(7) manpage is chock-full of fascinating information about system tuning. This brief article seems to have gleamed the most important bits out of it and presented them in an executive summary form, however, if you are a real performance-squeaker, I recommend going through all of tuning(7).

In general, section 7 of the manpages is full of interesting reads. You can get a list of available section 7 pages with:
$ apropos 7 | egrep -v '^.+\([12345689]\)'

Read and enjoy!