ongbh@staff.singnet.com.sg writes:
>I believed that kernel tuning play an important part in
>most of the production cache since they are under heavy
>load most of the time. My experience with UNIX is that
>every UNIX with default kernel parameter will break
>pretty fast (30 mins ?) when plug into our network as
>production machine.
>
>Any tips on Digital UNIX kernel parameters ? anyone ?
Well, my experience has been that fixing kernel bugs is much
more important than tuning :-). If you are running Digital
Unix 3.2C, be sure to get patch OSF350-146. This fixes a TCP
window size bug (which causes the machine to run out of mbufs),
plus lets you fiddle with the socket listen queue sizes.
You may also want to look for a patch which employs an mbuf
clustering algorithm (sorry, don't have a patch number).
Duane W.
Received on Mon Jun 24 1996 - 11:37:05 MDT
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