01-29-2006
The best way to tune a server/database/application for best performance is to reach acceptable performance requirement without tunning it.
This means that the configuration and setup is correctly done by using the default setting.
Any additional tuning often ends up giving up something else (E.g. performance/administrative/manageability/availability) in return of something else.
If a benefit can be gained with no expense of other stuff, the developer of the software would have gladly put it in the 1st place. (E.g. New features like sizing the buffers for IO/network are targeted for guru end-users to use them and report the bugs so that they can fix/stablize the new feature and set them as the default for best release so that the reminaing end-users dun have to tune it)
Of course there are exceptions there you would gladly trade in item X for item Y. But you have to know what is that item Y you want (E.g. Fast network performance for large data transfer).
There is no golden setting like: fast = yes.
If there is such a setting, all the vendor will put this as the default and the users need not set it.
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dsktune
DSKTUNE(1) General Commands Manual DSKTUNE(1)
NAME
dsktune - reports memory, network, and file system tuning settings which can affect the performance of the Directory Server
SYNOPSIS
dsktune [-q] [-c] [-D] [-v] [-i installdir]
DESCRIPTION
Reports memory, network, and file system tuning settings which can affect the performance of the Directory Server
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below:
-q dsktune only reports essential settings
-c dsktune only reports tuning information for client machines
-D dsktune also reports the commands executed
-v dsktune only reports its release version date
-i installdir
specify alternate server installation directory
AUTHOR
dsktune was written by the 389 Project.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to http://bugzilla.redhat.com.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Used by permission.
Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc.
This manual page was written by Michele Baldessari <michele@pupazzo.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the Directory Server license found in the LICENSE file of this
software distribution. This license is essentially the GNU General Public License version 2 with an exception for plug-in distribution.
May 18, 2008 DSKTUNE(1)