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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:02:19 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        chad@DCFinc.com, dl@tyfon.net (Dan Larsson)
Cc:        fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: remote 3.5 -> 4.1-STABLE source upgrade (updated)
Message-ID:  <v0422081db5e2ce22869d@[10.0.1.3]>
In-Reply-To: <200009111738.KAA27347@freeway.dcfinc.com>
References:  <200009111738.KAA27347@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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At 10:38 AM -0700 2000/9/11, Chad R. Larson wrote:

>  Not being a wise-ass (and not saying I can't be), but what features
>  in 4.1 not in 3.5 are driving your decision?

	For me, I understand that there have been some very significant 
changes in the virtual memory system and the buffer cache system, 
ones that I've been told are significant enough that will allow me to 
simply stop using the memory-based filesystem I have today for the 
primary USENET news peering server that we have, and to instead have 
the history database for Diablo 2.x stored on disk, where it can 
safely grow considerably larger than the ~384MB that I can afford to 
give to it under FreeBSD 3.x on that machine.

	Is that enough?

--
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