> * Iqigo Ortiz de Urbina tarom...@gmail.com [2010-01-05 11:24]: >> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >> > There is much more to do. You can find some ideas eg. here >> > http://www.openbsd.org/papers/tuning-openbsd.ps . It's good idea to >> > follow outputs of systat, vmstat and top for some time to find >> > bottlenecks. >> > >> > >> I recall a message in misc (which I am not able to find on the archives) >> about someone posting here the results of his research on optimizing and >> improving OpenBSD overall performance (fs, network, etc). >> >> Among the links he posted on his comprehensive compilation, he sent >> tuning-openbsd.ps. > > I'm one of the two authors of this paper. > ignore it. it is obsolete. > >> I remember one reply of a developer stating that some of those tuning >> measures are not needed anymore as OpenBSD has grown quite a bit since that >> time. Which are the recommended -always working- directions, then, to tune >> a >> system for its particular needs? > > there isn't really all that much needed these days, defaults are good. > some very specific situations benefit from some specific things, but > usually, you are wasting time trying to "tune". > >> My point is we all have to be careful and not follow guides or try values on >> sysctls blindly (although experimenting is welcome and healthy) as we can >> harm more than benefit we can get. Still, some enviroments will need >> adjustment to push much more traffic than GENERIC can, and this is a really >> hard task to accomplish unless you are a @henning or @claudio :) > > heh :) > > I really like the 275 -> 420MBit/s change for 4.6 -> current with pf.
Oh cool! There's this explained a little bit deeper? Sounds VERY interesting.
