From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 3:12:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5574237B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 03:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F5F643E42 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 03:12:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:12:30 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 17ev7e-0006HL-00; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:11:26 +0100 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:11:26 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: John Wards Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: optimizing the kernel In-Reply-To: <028a01c242e4$6a27dfd0$3100a8c0@JOHNCOMP> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, John Wards wrote: > hi I'm new (groan) > > I am running FreeBSD 4 and I am unsure if my kernel is optimized for my > processor and ram. how do I go about this? > > be gentle with me.... "man 7 tuning" is somewhat dense, but as a consequence there's a bunch of good stuff in there. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk HP-unix: Open Sauce product, available in 57 distributions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message