Tuning The Operating System

Tuning The Operating System

The process of tuning your operating system is not difficult, but it should be approached carefully. Make complete notes of your actions in case you need to reverse your changes later on. Understand what you are going to do before you do it, and do not expect miraculous results; IRIX has been engineered to provide the best possible performance under all but the most extreme conditions. Software that provides a great deal of graphics manipulation or data manipulation also carries a great deal of overhead for the system, and can seriously affect the speed of an otherwise robust system. No amount of tuning will change these situations.

Operating System Tuning Steps
Finding Current Values of Parameters
Changing Parameters and Reconfiguring the System