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. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message