At 20:33 10/22/2003, you wrote:
joe wrote:
There might be some small speed increase in certain situations, but you'll get much larger speed increases with a few basic config tweaks instead. RH tends to ship with some very slow default settings...
Joe
I can't stand the suspense ... drop the other shoe, what are those tweaks please?
Yeah, seriously... cough 'em up.
This small sample of settings have collectively made a huge difference on the systems I manage.
in /etc/fstab ------------------- mount all systems noatime mount filesystems other than /boot /root with data=writeback
in /etc/syslog.conf ------------------------ change logging to asynchronous:
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none -/var/log/messages authpriv.* -/var/log/secure mail.* -/var/log/maillog
in /etc/sysctl.conf --------------------------- net.ipv4.tcp_sack =0 net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps =0 net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling =0 net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 30 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time =1800
in /etc/nsswitch.conf ------------------------------- passwd: files shadow: files group: files
hosts: files dns [NOTFOUND=return]
bootparams: files
ethers: files netmasks: files networks: files protocols: files rpc: files services: files
netgroup: files
publickey: files
automount: files aliases: files
in /etc/profile ---------------- export LANG=en_US
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