Unix administration - Re: What kernel tuning typically needs to be done to optimize or enable a server to ha

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Re: What kernel tuning typically needs to be done to optimize or enable a server to ha

John Borowski

2004-11-17, 5:51 pm

> For the most part, Solaris can deal with a 'production load' quite
well
> if it's planned for in the beginning. In my experience, it's mostly
the > application that fails to scale well under a larger
load--usually due to > a design flaw or unforeseen growth or lack of
capacity planning.

I would have to concur. I have several FreeBSD servers in commercial
production and have had to do very little to tweak the kernels. A few
extra pty's and get rid of the junk for hardware you dont have.

After the fact though sometimes have to play with maxvnodes and
somaxconn at least in FreeBSD, the way the kernel build computes those
is ... bizzarre ;/