From: David Lowenstein (dlowenst@mail.sdsu.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 11:44:39 EDT
Thanks to
Yura Pismerov
Andrew J Caines
and a few more people whose emails I probably deleted.
The consensus seemed to be to remove the values from /etc/system that I
migrated over from a similar server, and then to just go into production
with the defaults, with the exception of
set noexec_user_stack = 1
set noexec_user_stack_log = 1
for security purposes, and
set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap=0
set hme:hme_adv_100T4_cap=0
set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap=1
set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap=0
set hme:hme_adv_10fdx_cap=0
set hme:hme_adv_10hdx_cap=0
to force 100 mbit full duplex ethernet
On Andrew Caines' suggestion I've installed orca to collect performance
data so I can make an intelligent decision if I see a performance problem,
instead of blindly changing /etc/system values because the "kernel tuning
folklore" says so. Adrian Cockroft says about the same thing in his
performance tuning book, don't believe in /etc/system folklore. It's not
to say that you can't reap performance gains from kernel tuning, you
should just have a good documented reason why you make each change.
Dave Lowenstein
Programmer/Analyst
Instructional Technology Services
San Diego State University
(619)594-0270
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/its
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