From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 14 20:30:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0550716A415 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:30:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F10243D5E for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:30:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 36250 invoked by uid 60001); 14 Oct 2006 20:30:02 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=R4AiC/PchOVK4ZTeSWthajda0c//xxyBloB4OEoTN8dNMj6iDYbTI499UdrDMu1bvLZM/S4Na4GSsu8xH0yw/Vg3C34GyvrGF1Vyii0ejthOcyDsg7aOZTC3oyu9UKEzBRyGhBRtBVOowM0DxeLmMd5tV3PsVda3haUwuvk37Ik= ; Message-ID: <20061014203002.36248.qmail@web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.34.182.15] by web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:30:02 PDT Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom To: Mike Horwath , NOC Prowip In-Reply-To: <20061014153813.GC72440@Geeks.ORG> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:30:04 -0000 --- Mike Horwath wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:13:24AM -0300, NOC > Prowip wrote: > > Hi, I am hooking in here without any > intention to fire things up but > > isn 't this discussion certainly useless? Not > only 4.11 is gone but > > also i386 is practically marked to die out as > well as UP systems > > are. > > Wow, I hope not. > > Unless you are separating out i386/i486 and > such. > > Many people refer to i386 as all 32bit x86 > systems. > > > All platforms are going to be 64bits and > memory of 4GB or more is > > not so rare anymore. Allmost all AM2 MBs > support already 16MB. Even > > most professionals are not using SCSI anymore > but Sata-II. > > I disagree. > > SATA (of any gen) still does not perform like > SCSI. Let's just look > at spindle speed alone ignoring the other > benefits of SCSI. You should try the new 10K WD drives (the ones that just came out). They kick butt. Unfortunately, I'd have to use FreeBSD 6 to use them, so I have to stick with SCSI on 4.x to get maximum performance. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com