On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:05:24PM +0200, Maarten Verwijs wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm having trouble with the following: > > We're doing a lot of numbercrunching and data-analasys at the site I'm > working as a systems administrator. I'd like to maximize performance on > all computers for this goal. > > Is there anyone here with any tips at what to enable/disable in a kernel > to maximize numbercrunching, even at the expense of > desktop-responsiveness? Probably not. numbercrunching is a purely userspace thing. By design, programs can do all sorts of math without any help from the kernel; the only thing the kernel is good for is I/O. If some particular application is doing lots of IO (use strace, maybe, ltrace or gdb also; compile with gcc -pg and use gprof), then its possible you could do something to optimize it .. but generally speaking I/O should be sparse and efficient, so if its not, its a bug in that program which should get patched :)
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