Baseline Setup page

[Justin Couch <couch@ccis.adisys.com.au>]

Following on from the recent thread, I'll put my bid in for a doc
defining a "baseline" system setup from which our performance tuning
tips can then work on.

What I envisage is saying the standard things like:

- separate swap partition, root/usr/log/etc partitions
- setting of swap size
- simple disk I/O (SCSI,IDE,IDE/ULTRA,RAID etc)
- PCI vs ISA
- RAM issues (parity/non-parity, EDO vs SD vs ...)
- not running unneeded services (inetd.conf setup, running X etc)

Any other ideas?

I can't start this until the weekend due to a software release on
Friday. This is just to let everyone know that it will be covered so you
can get working on the other stuff :)

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Justin Couch                                   Author, Java Hacker
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