Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 00:54:58 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> Cc: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>, stable@freebsd.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: 6.1 stability (Re: 4.11 snapshots?) Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060522005140.089ca378@lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <20060522020958.GA74782@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <57d710000605151942p2461338au561269fc5937aee7@mail.gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060515225038.08d72690@lariat.org> <446981CD.5000309@gmail.com> <4469C668.2060807@rerowe.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060516104907.08788ad8@lariat.org> <446A0608.10608@freebsd.org> <20060517130629.T64952@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20060521180003.GA59697@xor.obsecurity.org> <7.0.1.0.2.20060521131507.0893e9e8@lariat.org> <20060521220333.GA58342@heff.fud.org.nz> <20060522020958.GA74782@xor.obsecurity.org>
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At 08:09 PM 5/21/2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: >We did ourselves a big disservice by not pointing out clearly in the >todo list that most of the listed problems are VERY RARE and are >unlikely to affect most/all users. In future we're going to have to >be clearer about that, because you're not the only user who was scared >for no reason. > >We really had to push FreeBSD hard to find those problems; The servers I build are pushed really hard. >6.1 stands >up to enormous test loads that all previous tested releases could not >handle. I wouldn't be surprised if 4.x cannot handle the same >workloads, simply because no-one may have ever attempted such loads on >a 4.x system. > >Kris > >P.S. If you're willing to put some effort into analyzing and profiling >it, I'd be willing to work with you on your performance problem. You sound like one of those e-mails I keep getting offering to help me with my, er, performance problems. ;-) Seriously: The problem is that in my tests 6.x does not surpass Linux in performance, while 4.11 does. --Brett Glass
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