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Two papers On Performance Tuning FreeBSD

Posted by Hemos on from the making-it-better-and-faster dept.

avleenvig writes "Finally I have completed my paper on tuning the FreeBSD system for various common tasks, to compliment the paper on compiling and tuning the FreeBSD kernel. These papers were written against FreeBSD 4.x systems but should be equally applicable to 5.x systems on almost all counts. Compiling and tuning the FreeBSD kernel: http://silverwraith.com/papers/freebsd-kernel.php Performance tuning FreeBSD for different applications: http://silverwraith.com/papers/freebsd-tuning.php. You will find within, details on tuning your network, disks, sysctls and kernel for maximum performance under various conditions. "

2 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. More like this! by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wish there were more usefull step by step how-to stuff on the web like this. Too often I look for how to do something and I have to figure it out in bits an pieces.

    It difficult for the people in the land between complete noob, and guru. It's like I'm an advanced user that has to admin his own box. ]:3}>

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    Pretty Pictures!
  2. performance gains compared to unoptimized system? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The papers are great but I'm missing a important aspect of it.

    I don't know what kind of performance gains I can expect. It might not be worth the trouble if you gain a few percentage points compared to an unoptimized system. For me if an optimization can make you gain a 10% extra performance (or more!) it begins to be interesting.