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Old 13th June 2013
punk0x29a punk0x29a is offline
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Default What else can I tweak?

I want to squeeze more power from my FreeBSD desktop. Trivia like shortening boot time or using lightweight WM already done.

I've recompiled everything from scratch, setting march='my CPU model'

I've got nice partition layout, as described in man tuning.

I've followed a few guides on the net, which gave me:


sysctl.conf:
Code:
kern.maxfiles=49312 # I know what it does
kern.sched.preempt_thresh=224 # But what bigger preemption treshold really means? It won't kick apps to the end of a queue so often? Cause it's how I understand it...   
kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1 # Only info I've found is that it's disabled by  default for security reasons, but otherwise it's safe to use...
kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864 # Know what it does. 
kern.ipc.shmall=32768 # But not really sure about values... I have heard that  it's enough to boost X. And yeah, it feels a bit more responsive...
Any resources/explanations are very welcome


rc.conf:
Code:
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
sshd_enable="NO"
ntpd_enable="YES"
ntpdate_enable="YES"
ntpdate_hosts="in.pool.ntp.org"
powerd_enable="YES"
powerd_flags="-a hiadaptive"
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
dumpdev="NO"
sendmail_enable="NONE"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
cupsd_enable="YES" 
devfs_system_ruleset="system"
clear_tmp_enable="YES"
clean_tmp_X="YES"
I guess nothing interesting here, besides powerd settings maybe...

loader.conf:
Code:
kern.ipc.shmseg=1024
kern.ipc.shmmni=1024
kern.maxproc=10000
tmpfs_load="YES"
hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1" # This one I don't really get...  
kern.timecounter.hardware=HPET # This one I don't really get...  
kern.hz=1000 # Back on linux I had to choose that @ compilation time :) Maybe there is a parameter to set it, but I don't know about any...  
vfs.read_max=32 # Rise it?
Hmm... What else can I do? And why should/will it work?

P.S.
FreeBSD tweakability is absolutely awesome!
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Old 24th June 2013
bsdnotbdsm bsdnotbdsm is offline
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You can tune "kern.cam.scsi_delay",
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SCSI_DELAY (kern.cam.scsi_delay)

The SCSI_DELAY kernel configuration option may be used to reduce system boot times. The defaults are fairly high and can be responsible for 15 seconds of delay in the boot process. Reducing it to 5 seconds usually works with modern drives. The kern.cam.scsi_delay boot time tunable should be used. The tunable and kernel configuration option accept values in terms of milliseconds and not seconds.
You can decrease it even more, I used to set it to 2 seconds (2000 ms), worked fine.

Other than this, check:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ning-disk.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...el-limits.html
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