From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 20 00:29:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E4316A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:29:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC27843D1F for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:29:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from runaround.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA24461; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:29:08 -0700 (MST) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook renders your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.2.20041219172536.04cde380@localhost> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.0.14 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:29:05 -0700 To: Xin LI From: Brett Glass In-Reply-To: <20041219054045.GA494@frontfree.net> References: <200412190500.WAA16814@lariat.org> <20041219054045.GA494@frontfree.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will there be a 5.3.1? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:29:33 -0000 At 10:40 PM 12/18/2004, Xin LI wrote: >Would you please explain what are these ``glitches'' and ``performance >issues''? Are they believed to have been fixed in recent -CURRENT? 5.3 has been reported to be significantly slower on many machines -- something that we've seen in our own tests. Some of these may have been fixed in -CURRENT, but this would not do us any good. We only run release versions of FreeBSD on our production servers, and then only update them with security fixes. We abolutely WON'T track -CURRENT on a production machine, or take a random sample of it on a random day, due to the many difficulties that this can cause. --Brett Glass