> > Obviouly you want to start with a machine with a much memory as you can afford, > as fast a disk subsystem you can afford, and as powerful a CPU you can afford. > Then rip a boot only CD, and do a minimal install with the ports collection. Done > FreeBSD 6.1 is pretty optimized already, and it will adapt. Have you followed > the directions for building a custom kernel? Yes. > Don't include hardware you don't have is obvious to strip from the GENERIC > kernel configuration file, and make build for SMP if you have real dual cores or > processors if you have them (a single CPU with hyperthreading most likely will > not run as fast under an SMP kernel). Done > As far as any other tweeking, follow the directions here and don't do anything > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/vm-tuning.html > Ok Thanks a lot Enrico -- If Bill Gates had a penny for everytime Windows crashed,he'd be a multi-billionaire by now .......oh look, he already is !!!! scotty@xxxxxxxxxxxx - Skype:sscotty71 http://www.linuxtime.it/enricopirozzi