Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:44:23 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swapping in diskless ? (was :Re: [hackers] Re: getting rid of sysinstall) Message-ID: <20010717204423.J18481@mail.webmonster.de> In-Reply-To: <200107132227.f6DMR8071313@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:27:08PM -0700 References: <bulk.72438.20010711142307@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107121211060.35209-100000@www.bloodletting.com> <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org> <3B4E1C69.A6DC0397@herbelot.com> <15182.63564.476492.390695@trooper.velocet.net> <3B4F3A22.EF2AC90A@herbelot.com> <15183.17942.995110.382797@trooper.velocet.net> <200107132227.f6DMR8071313@earth.backplane.com>
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--pWJxWxNlJUNgDlXi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Matt Dillon(dillon@earth.backplane.com)@2001.07.13 15:27:08 +0000: > Also, do performance testing with dynamic-linked verses static-linked > binaries. Static-linked binaries may look larger, but they have a=20 > much lower dirty-page overhead then the dynamically linked equivalent. > It depends on the situation but it is definitely worth testing. yup, and for highvolume dumbfire boxes (static web content, ftp server) i also have one box running with options NO_SWAPPING and carefully calculated limits in the userland. runs like a charm. i use the swap partition mostly to hold a crashdump if i'm trying something weird ;-) /k --=20 > question =3D ( to ) ? be : ! be; // Wm. Shakespeare KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.n= et/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- catch@spam.de GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 B= F46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 1= 0x --pWJxWxNlJUNgDlXi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7VIeHM0BPTilkv0YRAmPPAJ0R74GvVT9MiO2rbXmC5jVO+xlbHgCgkwyf 0/g+k6Srz1+2mj/feORlQUA= =U1dd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pWJxWxNlJUNgDlXi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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