Kernel Options fo a File Server

[Tom Grove]

PeterPluta wrote:
> >From what I heard from most BSD'ers it's not really feasible to re-compile or
> customize the kernel much these days. If you truly need to compile/optimize
> the kernel you're already overworking your hardware. With that being said
> I’m curious myself, I'm always interested in squeezing a little out of my
> hardware.
>
>
> Ivan Carey wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>> What would be the best Kernel options to run a file server?
>> I will be using an Intel server mother board with one Xeon quad core CPU 
>> installed (this mother board has 2 CPU sockets) 2GB RAM and dual 500Gb 
>> SATA HDD's
>>
>> I am thinking of options that would make the kernel efficient as a pure 
>> file server.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ivan
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First, please don't top post.  Thanks.

I typically recompile a kernel for almost every new machine.  You can 
certainly change a great deal of options within the kernel that you 
otherwise can't do.  For instance do a 'make LINT' in 
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf and grok the LINT file for options.  There are 
tons of tweaks you could do.

If you want to tweak the file server I would look more into tunefs.  man 
tunefs...this will probably be where you will find the most info about 
getting the most out of your filesystem.

-Tom