On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:49:48AM -0500, Michael R. Wayne wrote:
> There needs to be an >automatic< way to help the new user get a
> better kernel on his box. Matt Dillon provided a man page, now
> what's needed is a program (call it autotune) that looks at the
> machine and, possibly after asking the user some questions about
> proposed machine use, builds OPTIMIZED and generates changes for
> system files (e.g. adding softupdates to /etc/fstab).
Would it not be simple to create say, GENERIC-64M, GENERIC-128M,
GENERIC-256M (or small medium large, or whatever), tune a number
of critical parameters, and just ship them as part of /bin? Surely
the code to have the installer check the sysctl for the amount
of ram in the machine and hard link that one to /kernel would
be trival, and at least give us something. Just by changing a
few memory settings and making a "guess" about maxusers (and
the cascade of changes that has) based on total RAM would be a
crude but useful start.
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