Chapter 7. Application Tuning
- Table of Contents
- 7.1. Squid Proxy Server
- 7.1.1. Squid as a proxy cache
- 7.1.2. Squid as a reverse proxy
- 7.2. SMTP and Mail Delivery
- 7.2.1. Sendmail
- 7.2.2. Mail Delivery (POP and IMAP)
- 7.3. MySQL, PostgresSQL, other databases
- 7.4. Routers and firewalls
- 7.5. Apache web server
- 7.6. Samba File Sharing
- 7.7. Network File System
While one can tune hardware and the OS and get great measurements from it, most applications for Linux have their own rules for improving performance. Tuning a hard drive for an application that uses a lot of memory will not improve the speed of that application, whereas investing in more memory will create a vast improvement in speed. Let us examine some of the applications for Linux and how you can tune a box specifically for it.