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Linux Tuning Repository

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the tips-and-tricks dept.

Owain Vaughan writes "Mindcraft's excuse for their results when comparing highly tuned NT versus vanilla Linux was that there was no central source of Linux Tuning information. Well there is now. Please submit all the Linux tuning articles you can get hold of to root@vaughan.com"

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  1. How does this relate to linuxperf? by Mithrandir · · Score: 5

    Rik van Riel has already started a linux tuning site over at nl.linux.org. Already there are some 50+ folks on the alias with documents starting to fly around the CVS system. Nobody has mentioned this site to us, so what's the deal?

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    1. Re:How does this relate to linuxperf? by luge · · Score: 5

      Yeah. I hate to shoot this guy down, but there are some very serious folks doing some very serious work at this URL. It was mentioned a couple of days ago at linuxtoday. I'll try to find the URL for the actual announcemnt there. Anyway, the gist of is that they are not just doing a repository (which is what this appears to be.) Rather, they are trying to coordinate (through CVS) the writing of actual documentation, not just a collection of tips. This is sorely needed- if you have serious time and writing skills, go help them out. I know I will as soon as exams are over...

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  2. Re:The original effort by Mithrandir · · Score: 5
    We're writing as quickly as we can. There are actually a whole heap of documents there, but the guy that did the main page hasn't linked them in yet. You have to read the CVS update messages to know where to find things :) (I remember that at least there is a sendmail page there)

    Rik has just moved the list over to majordomo (message came through all of 5 mikes ago). You can join the list by sending mail to

    with the body

    • subscribe linuxperf

    and then come join the fun.

    Note that we are taking a completely different approach to tunelinux. We're breaking it down into functional areas rather than specific applications. For example, to tune a, oh.. let's say samba server, you need to tune SAMBA, the kernel and a number of other things to get the best from your box. If you take the tunelinux approach, you'll only end up with a 50% solution because you'll just tune SAMBA, and not the kernel. The Mindcraft report is a classic for that. Yes, tune samba, but hey, the kernel still only uses 960MB of RAM. The "tuning samba" doc approach wouldn't cover that sort of information all in the one spot. Effectively you end up with the same problem as we have now - lots of documentation but so fragmented that you can't do anything useful with it.

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  3. Re:Question by peterb · · Score: 5

    TCP Tuning information for many operating systems (including Linux, BSD, and Microsoft's offerings) may be found at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and NLANR Engineering Services

  4. It seems a bit sparse on content by Agnomen · · Score: 5

    tunelinux seems a bit sparse on content. It seems more like a template for a new site, than a ready to launch site. The links I followed all seemed to point to simple descriptions of the various daemons and architectures. They could have seeded it with at least the Apache Performance notes or the more specific OS performance notes already published on the main Apache site. Not to mention the fact that they could have perused the contents of the many howtos listed at Linuxberg among many other places. It looks like a good starting point though, and I'm sure it will become a useful resource once more content is provided. It is a nice design, but "Content is King."