Re: Stripping kernel FreeBSD - postgres

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> Obviouly you want to start with a machine with a much memory as you can afford,
> as fast a disk subsystem you can afford, and as powerful a CPU you can afford.
> Then rip a boot only CD, and do a minimal install with the ports collection.

Done

> FreeBSD 6.1 is pretty optimized already, and it will adapt. Have you followed
> the directions for building a custom kernel?

Yes.

> Don't include hardware you don't have is obvious to strip from the GENERIC
> kernel configuration file, and make build for SMP if you have real dual cores or
> processors if you have them (a single CPU with hyperthreading most likely will
> not run as fast under an SMP kernel).

Done

> As far as any other tweeking, follow the directions here and don't do anything
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/vm-tuning.html
>

Ok
Thanks a lot

Enrico

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