Subject: Re: -pipe significantly boosts up kernel compile speed
To: None <rasputin@idoru.mine.nu>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/05/2002 04:28:38
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 06:12:51PM +0100, rasputin@idoru.mine.nu wrote:
> Just a thought, but has anybody considered adding a (possibly
> platform-specific) tuning(7) manpage, like FreeBSD has?
> 
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?E56923131
> 
> That would be an ideal place for documenting performance tweaks
> that we may want to suggest but not enforce by default, also
> kernel options to particular roles, etc.
> 
> For all I know we already have this resource
>  - the mailing list archives spring to mind :) - but this would
> be something that would be easily accessible, and could be maintained
> along with the system (sometimes it's hard to tell whether a particular
> tweak still applies to a moderm NetBSD box).
> 
> And yes, since I'm the evil genius behind this, I'm prepared to
> contribute if people think it would be handy (still pretty new to
> NetBSD, so would happily accept contributions from gurus).

Sounds like a good idea to me. ;-)

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>