From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 5 18:59:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6B74416A47B for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:59:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4BB43D5F for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:59:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout13/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k95IxT7a017667; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [17.214.13.96] (a17-214-13-96.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin07/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k95IxLib000809; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:59:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <45254F1D.5000106@squaretrade.com> References: <45254F1D.5000106@squaretrade.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:59:20 -0700 To: Paul Lathrop X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAE tuning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:59:30 -0000 On Oct 5, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > That's really good to know. Unfortunately, nobody seems to have > written > down WHICH tunables need to be adjusted besides the one mentioned > above, > nor is there any information on what "reasonable value" means! > > Can anyone point me at a resource for more information on this? You're supposed to tune the appropriate values considering the workload the machine is going to handle. "man tuning" has some additional information, but without describing what kind of tasks you plan to do with this machine with 14GB of RAM, nobody is going to be able to provide you with really specific advice... -- -Chuck