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author | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-01-10 16:27:25 +0000 |
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committer | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-01-10 16:27:25 +0000 |
commit | 3c4655ddfb043bef7422510db5d3ac409c1d04f3 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 b/share/man/man7/tuning.7 index afc21d6..8fe231e 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/tuning.7 @@ -53,10 +53,10 @@ internal data structures scale to 4 times the largest swap partition. Keeping the swap partitions near the same size will allow the kernel to optimally stripe swap space across the N disks. -Don't worry about overdoing it a +Do not worry about overdoing it a little, swap space is the saving grace of .Ux -and even if you don't normally use much swap, it can give you more time to +and even if you do not normally use much swap, it can give you more time to recover from a runaway program before being forced to reboot. .Pp How you size your @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ partition is primarily used to hold mailboxes, the print spool, and log files. Some people even make .Pa /var/log -its own partition (but except for extreme cases it isn't worth the waste +its own partition (but except for extreme cases it is not worth the waste of a partition ID). If your machine is intended to act as a mail or print server, @@ -152,8 +152,8 @@ Why partition at all? Why not create one big .Pa / partition and be done with it? -Then I don't have to worry about undersizing things! -Well, there are several reasons this isn't a good idea. +Then I do not have to worry about undersizing things! +Well, there are several reasons this is not a good idea. First, each partition has different operational characteristics and separating them allows the filesystem to tune itself to those characteristics. @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ For this reason, softupdates will not be enabled on the root file system during a typical install. The most obvious and most dangerous one is .Cm async . -Don't ever use it, it is far too dangerous. +Do not ever use it, it is far too dangerous. A less dangerous and more useful .Xr mount 8 @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ some may be set at boot time using but most will be set via .Xr sysctl.conf 5 . There are several hundred sysctls in the system, including many that appear -to be candidates for tuning but actually aren't. +to be candidates for tuning but actually are not. In this document we will only cover the ones that have the greatest effect on the system. .Pp @@ -568,7 +568,8 @@ sysctl. Some sites will require larger or smaller values of .Va kern.maxusers and may set it as a loader tunable; values of 64, 128, and 256 are not -uncommon. We do not recommend going above 256 unless you need a huge number +uncommon. +We do not recommend going above 256 unless you need a huge number of file descriptors; many of the tunable values set to their defaults by .Va kern.maxusers may be individually overridden at boot-time or run-time as described @@ -578,7 +579,7 @@ Systems older than must set this value via the kernel .Xr config 8 option -.Va maxusers +.Cd maxusers instead. .Pp .Va kern.ipc.nmbclusters @@ -640,10 +641,10 @@ The manual page and the handbook are good starting points for learning how to do this. Generally the first thing you do when creating your own custom -kernel is to strip out all the drivers and services you don't use. +kernel is to strip out all the drivers and services you do not use. Removing things like .Dv INET6 -and drivers you don't have will reduce the size of your kernel, sometimes +and drivers you do not have will reduce the size of your kernel, sometimes by a megabyte or more, leaving more memory available for applications. .Pp .Dv SCSI_DELAY @@ -706,7 +707,7 @@ on by setting the .Va hw.ata.wc loader tunable to 1. More information on tuning the ATA driver system may be found in -.Xr ata 4. +.Xr ata 4 . .Pp There is a new experimental feature for IDE hard drives called .Va hw.ata.tags |