From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 5 19:34:55 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 C64FD16A40F for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:34:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rcc@speedy.net.pe) Received: from kheops.speedy.net.pe (kheops.speedy.net.pe [200.48.172.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB6B943D92 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:34:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rcc@speedy.net.pe) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by kheops.speedy.net.pe (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B392618F; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:34:20 -0500 (PET) Received: from kheops.speedy.net.pe ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kheops.speedy.net.pe [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45702-13; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:34:17 -0500 (PET) Received: from kheops.speedy.net.pe (kheops.speedy.net.pe [200.48.172.40]) by kheops.speedy.net.pe (Postfix) with ESMTP id C90DA2618E; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:34:17 -0500 (PET) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:34:17 -0500 (PET) From: Richard Cotrina To: Paul Lathrop In-Reply-To: <45255976.10903@squaretrade.com> Message-ID: <20061005142322.W45666@kheops.speedy.net.pe> References: <45254F1D.5000106@squaretrade.com> <45255976.10903@squaretrade.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at speedy.net.pe 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 19:34:55 -0000 Have you thought in using 6.1/amd64 instead of 6.1/i386 + PAE ? Your Xeon processor is supported under the amd64 port, using EM64T for addressing more than 4GB. I had some stability troubles in the past running mysql server with PAE enabled, for a 6GB RAM server. Regards On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Paul Lathrop wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: > > 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... > > Good point. :-) > > I intend to deploy this system as a database server running Postgresql > 8.1. The database is huge (30-40Gb) and can easily grow (it has gone as > high as 100Gb). I expect as many as 1000 concurrent database connections > now, and a potential need for scaling this up later. > > I'm aware of the SystemV memory tuning issues related to running > Postgres on FreeBSD and I'll address those as soon as I can get the > system to see the RAM. > > I tried just installing the stock PAE kernel, but the system still > doesn't even acknowledge the RAM above 4Gb. Is this because I have not > yet performed the tuning? > > Thanks for your help! > > --Paul > >