From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 19:44:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 214C016A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:44:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from galaxy.systems.pipex.net (galaxy.systems.pipex.net [62.241.162.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4685443D1F for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:44:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com) Received: from [10.0.0.247] (81-178-72-203.dsl.pipex.com [81.178.72.203]) by galaxy.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430C3E00030B; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:44:32 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <417EA926.4020702@dsl.pipex.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:44:38 +0100 From: Mark Cullen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gordon Freeman References: <32ab229c0410261154b0064c9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <32ab229c0410261154b0064c9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First impressions of FreeBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:44:35 -0000 Gordon Freeman wrote: > Well, After upgrading a very vanilla 5.2.1 to 5.3 a lot of things are > just broken. > > ipfstat doesn't run. The error: > openkmem:open:no such file or directory > > My RAID card (Adaptec 2150 using asr driver) is inaccessible because > the rasr control device no longer exists. Making raidutil useless. > > And the server runs incredibly slow. (No I didn't leave in the testing options) > > The upgrade was far from smooth for me. Which was mostly my fault > (/usr/src/UPDATING is a must read) but that doesn't really explain why > things are running so badly on this box. > > ACPI is disabled, and aside from including IPF and SMP options into > the kernel, it is a very generic kernel as well. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Not an answer to your question but on my (old 133MHz) box 5.x is alot lot slower than 4.x. But I think the general response there will be... you shouldn't run 5.x on such a slow box :) -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/