[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD 9.0 tuning

[Isaac Levy]

On Feb 7, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:34 AM, George Rosamond
> <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
>> On 02/07/12 10:31, Henry M wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Has anyone come across, or know of any good 9.0 tuning tips/guides? I'm
>>> looking for improved sequential reads, (ZFS), and any networking tuning.
>>> I'm not sure if 9.0 introduced new compile options or sysctls.
>>> 
>> 
>> I know the FBSD handbook is sparse on 9 still, but did you check man tuning
>> yet?
>> 
>> Assume that was updated as a start. . .
> 
> tuning(7) is very out of date. There is some work to update it being
> done here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/SystemTuning

Regarding ZFS, there are so many possibilities, the tuning guide begins here, (a work in progress):

http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide

and I've found extremely useful:

http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide

Rocket-
.ike