On Jan 7, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Olivier Cochard-Labbé <oliv...@cochard.me> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Fleuriot Damien <m...@my.gd> wrote: >> >> >> Well perhaps the code to handle auto tuning isn't present in the driver >> itself. >> >> I'm not a huge fan of the idea, I believe it would be rather taxing to >> implement all the exceptions and that some could easily be overlooked. >> >> I believe it's better to have a more user-friendly documentation and let >> users tune the hardware to suit their needs. >> > > And why not to provide a "simple" shell script that: > 1. Collect the detected hardware device list > 2. Collect the sysctl value > 3. Popose all tunning tips regarding the detected hardware (including > RAM/number of CPU/etc…) and the sysctl value > > This will kept default conservative value and guide the user to tune > by itself its system. > > Regards, > > Olivier Tuning isn't simply dependent on your hardware, it also *heavily* depends on what you want to do with your server. A large database, a fast httpd serving tiny 2kbytes files, or a samba server have little in common and require different optimizations. While I understand the motivation behind your idea, I still don't think it would be terrific. However, who am I to stop you ? Kindly feel free to conceptualize such a script and ask for testers here on the mailing list, I for one would be delighted to help. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
