Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 00:38:16 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903260033490.13895-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903252214190.8166-100000@hades.riverstyx.net>
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On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: # Everyone needs driver updates. The 3c905b hadn't even been released when # I installed the machine I needed the patch for. I upgraded the hardware # and I needed the patch -- hardly a Linux problem. And the infamous TCP/IP # problems, which almost everyone has fallen victim to in the past two # years. My point was, running Linux doesn't mean patching your machine # every couple days to fix problems. I don't know where people get this # idea of Linux instability, but it's just not true. I certainly never said that, though I do believe that FreeBSD is more stable than Linux for a variety of other reasons. :) Of course, you know that arguing the stability of Linux vs. FreeBSD on a FreeBSD won't necessarily always get unbiased remarks in response. # I want to run a webserver that's going to probably be serving about 400 # requests simultaneously on average, but it may spike up to 900 at times. # Bandwidth-wise, it'll be moving about 600+k/sec on a PII-450 w/384 megs # RAM. There'll be a lot of CGI involved, as well as a MySQL database that's # being used for authentication as well as keeping track of a bunch of user # accounting data. I tried FreeBSD initially, but it didn't last 10 minutes # before coming down. # # I searched on the web and checked links from the FreeBSD homepage, as well # as a couple other FreeBSD related pages that I found, but found no # information on tuning FreeBSD machines. The HOWTOs for FreeBSD are # minimal. There aren't many users out there with easily accessible # information on what they've done to make it work. # # What do I need to do to make it work? Increase the number of tasks? Can I # just use ulimit, or do I need to change stuff in the kernel? I noticed # some stuff in there limiting the per-user tasks to 64, but that didn't # look reasonable, and it looked like it got ignored anyway, so I don't know # what bearing that had on the system. How can I increase the maximum # number of file descriptors/inodes? Are there any changes I should make to # the memory management stuff, and if so where and how? What else needs to # be done to a FreeBSD machine to allow it to handle heavy load? I can look around and see if I can drum up these answers. But if you don't mind I'd like to forward these questions to the -isp list too to see if someone with more knowledge than myself can help out. Is that ok? -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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