Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:42:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Felix-Antoine Paradis <reel@sympatico.ca> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: helping Wietse help postfix on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010703194218.U66434-100000@idemnia.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20010703181912.M8059-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Len Conrad wrote: > > > I=B4m trying to gather tuning information for Wietse Venema who says: > > > > "I'm writing a document that describes how to crank up FreeBSD so > > that it can run lots of processes, and so that it can handle lots > > of connections. > > > > Right now, these guidelines vary from sysctl, loader.conf, to > > recompiling a kernel. This is confusing." > > Terry posted patches to tunify some of the recompile requiring options, > but I don't think anyone's working on getting that committed right now. > > However, if you're good at shell scripting, you might be able to kill at > least one of those problems. I was also recently annoyed by the fact tha= t > boot time tuneable sysctls and runtime tuneable sysctls can't be set in a > single place. What would be cool is if someone made a script that read > loader.conf sometime during startup and set the options which weren't > tuned at boot time. This would allow people to throw all sysctls they > want to tweak into a single file and make giving out instructions much > easier. > > (I'm assuming that the new script would then be added to the default > system startup; otherwise it wouldn't be very useful.) > Is /etc/sysctl.conf what you are looking for? - Felix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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