FreeBSD High-Performance Network Stack Tuning Guide

The default FreeBSD configuration is optimized for compatibility, not maximum network throughput. This becomes visible especially during iperf testing, routing benchmarks, or high-traffic workloads where mbuf exhaustion or CPU bottlenecks can occur. Let's discuss various turnings.

ZFS - Storage Provisioning

ZFS (Zettabyte File System) is a combined filesystem and volume manager, originally developed by Sun Microsystems for Solaris and now widely used on FreeBSD and other Unix-like systems.

In this blog post, we will describe ZFS and examples how to use it.