performance tuning servers?

[groovin]

i was just wondering what you guys out there were doing to keep your servers optimized.

for windows: do you guys run the basic defrags or some other 3rd party like disckeeper or contig? anything else?

for linux/unix: besides updates of the programs and kernel and compiling a custom kernel, what do you do to optimize performance of your systems? i havent seen or heard of any type of defrags of the HDs. i usually just check top to see where my system resources are going.

thanks

 

[spyordie007]

what type of server are you working on?

OS/Services/Hardware/etc.?

 

[groovin]

i work with the usual NT domain controller/file server/exchange servers... for unix (bsd/linux) i use them for proxies, firewalls, samba servers, etc. the basic kinda stuff.

 

[spyordie007]

Well I have a file server that I have disckeeper running twice weekly on. I dont run defrags on my web servers on a regular schedule. Exchange and AD are fairly good about their own matinence (2000 or better, 5.5/NT 4 needs some occasional matinence) so that just about covers it.

It's mostly a question of building them for the job at hand, the majority of servers/services wont need a large amount of matinence if they are setup correctly.

-Spy

 

[groovin]

spy,

yeah thats what i thought, but i was begining to wonder about it because they have been so trouble free (besides keeping up with the vulnerabilities discovered in MS products every other week!)

 

[drag]

If you want to fool around with linux you can try using a experamental 2.5 kernel. Those have many performance upgrades that are being de-bugged until the 2.6 release. You can get by with a 2.5 kernel even on a production machine if you test test test it first, but I wouldn't personally.

You can try maybe... assigning a level of "nice"-ness to a program... this is basicly assigning priorities to different tasks, so if you do a lot on a server you can make it so that the services always get the resources first if they need it. read the man files for nice and renice.

Read the documentation on the services running, sometimes setting different options can speed things up.... But I don't know any more specifics

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Generally, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Nothing.