Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server

[dannyman]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:50:51AM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote:
>     One thing that comes to mind is that you can smarthost your outgoing
>     email to another host so the queues don't build up.  This should
>     greatly reduce mail load.  In fact, I would recommend offloading email
>     entirely if possible... email always hits disks hard.
> 
>     Definitely get rid of MFS.  MFS wastes 2x the memory allocated to it.
>     Use a softupdates-enabled filesystem in place of MFS, or use a 
>     swap-backed VN-based partition with softupdates enabled.
> 
>     Alfred's vmiodirenable suggestion is a good one.
[...]

This might make a tiny help: mount things -noatime?  If you are reading the
same files over and over and over again you needn't bother WRITEing an atime
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