svn commit: r41664 - in projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook: config network-servers

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Sat, 18 May 2013, Tom Rhodes wrote:

> Modified: projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.xml
> ==============================================================================
> --- projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.xml	Sat May 18 18:24:11 2013	(r41663)
> +++ projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.xml	Sat May 18 19:55:59 2013	(r41664)
> @@ -1959,6 +1959,19 @@ device_probe_and_attach: cbb0 attach ret
>   <sect1 id="configtuning-disk">
>     <title>Tuning Disks</title>
>
> +    <para>The following section will discuss various tuning
> +      mechanisms and options which may be applied to disk
> +      devices.  In many cases, disks with mechanical parts,
> +      such as <acronym>SCSI</acronym> drives, will be the bottle
> +      neck driving down the overall system performance.  While

I thought "bottleneck" was a word of itself (no space).

-Ben

> +      a solution is to install a drive without mechanical parts,
> +      such as a solid state drive, mechanical drives are not
> +      going away anytime in the near future.  When tuning disks,
> +      it is advisable to utilize the features of the &man.iostat.8;
> +      command to test various changes to the system.  This
> +      command will allow the user to obtain valuable information
> +      on system <acronym>IO</acronym>.</para>
> +
>     <sect2>
>       <title>Sysctl Variables</title>