Jan Stary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am running 5.1-RELEASE on a outdated machine - it's a Compaq > Deskpro 2000, manufactured ~1995, with Pentium/100 and 24MB RAM. > I made a 64MB swap partition. > > I wonder if there are any particular options (systcl vm.* ?) that > I should be intersted in to get the best out of the machine. > > I did sysctl -ae | sed 's/^/#/' >> /etc/sysctl.conf and went > through all of it, but the descriptions (sysctl -ad) didn't > really tell me much. > > The handbook advised me to put MAXUSERS 0 into kernconf, so that > the systems puts a reasonable default value into kern.maxusers. > Is there something more to tweak? > > Is there some documentation about running FreeBSD on a very > lowmem machine? Some discussion of kern.maxusers?
That isn't *that* low memory a machine. You may need to tune for specific applications you want to run, but not in general. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"