On Dec 22, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <free...@jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: >> On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. >>> Now... in case someone here is willing to help instead of talking, feel >>> free to go to http://wiki.freebsd.org/BenchmarkAdvice and have a look what >>> can be improved. The page is far from perfect and needs some additional >>> people which are willing to improve it. >>> >>> This is only part of the problem. A tuning page in the wiki - which could >>> be referenced from the benchmark page - would be great too. Any volunteers? >>> A first step would be to take he tuning-man-page and wikify it. Other >>> tuning sources are welcome too. >>> >>> Every FreeBSD dev with a wiki account can hand out write access to the >>> wiki. The benchmark page gives contributor-access. If someone wants write >>> access create a FirstnameLastname account and ask here for >>> contributor-access. >>> >>> Don't worry if you think your english is not good enough, even some >>> one-word notes can help (and _my_ english got already corrected by other >>> people on the benchmark page). >>> >>> Bye, >>> Alexander. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> Nice to see movement ;-) >> >> But there seems something unclear: >> >> man make.conf(5) says, that MALLOC_PRODUCTION is a knob set in >> /etc/make.conf. >> The WiJi says, MALLOC_PRODUCTION is to be set in /etc/src.conf. >> >> What's right and what's wrong now? > > I can say with certainty that this value belongs in /etc/make.conf > (on RELENG_8 and earlier at least). > > src/share/mk/bsd.own.mk has no framework for MK_MALLOC_PRODUCTION, > so, this is definitely a make.conf variable. Take the advice in tuning(7) with a grain of salt because a number of suggestions are really outdated. I know because I filed a PR last night after I saw how out of synch some of the defaults it claimed were with reality on 9.x+. And I know other suggestions in the manpage are dated as well ;/. Thanks, -Garrett_______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
