Re: Thoughts on subject breakdown

[Mat Kovach <mkovach@cleveland.lug.net>]

On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 04:58:27PM +0900, Justin Couch wrote:
: While we definitely need the "How do I ..." section, I think there is a
: lot of different classes of information and setups where we present that
: question in the local context rather than just having a thousand and one
: links right at the top level. 

	Along those lines, I think the site should be broken down a little
bit differently:

	o Tuning a System 

	  Since many people coming into the Linux fold from NT, Novell, etc
	  many are not setting up their filesystems, swap, memory, etc
	  in the most best way.  I personally have seen people that have 
	  their swap, system logs, mail queues, apache root, database files
	  all on one big partition and can understand why their system
	  spends some much time waiting for disk I/O :->

	o System Application Configurations
	  
	  Many of the System Applications (syslog, NIS, NFS, etc) have 
	  serveral parameters that should be adjusted to improve system
	  performance and help Linux work "nice" with other systems.

 	o Application Configurations

	  Sendmail, Apache, SAMBA, etc configurations and setup techniques
	  to improve their performance and provide better intergration to 
	  other systems.  Much of that is presented here will related back
	  to changes in the first.

	o Database Configurations

	  With the increase of major commercail databases for Linux we should
	  make sure that people install an Oracle, Informix, Sybase, etc. 
	  setup on their system we have to make sure that people understand
	  the setup that is required to provide the best performance.  Also
	  here we can talk about databases <-> apache intergration and helping
	  to improve the database releated web hosting.

	
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Mat Kovach                                      mkovach@cleveland.lug.net
Cleveland Linux User Group                       http://cleveland.lug.net