From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 5 04:25:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA19232 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 May 1997 04:25:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA19221 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 04:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA03216 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 13:25:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id NAA13067 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Mon, 5 May 1997 13:42:40 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 13:42:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199705051142.NAA13067@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: noticable performance gain Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I installed 3.0-current of May 3rd on a couple of my machines here (together with the new xterm) and one of my (power) users spontaneously sent me an email saying that the system now feels a lot more responsive. xterm comes up much quicker. Working with it is even more enjoyable. The machine is a 150 MHz P5 w/ 32 MB, IDE, nothing peculiar, NIS/NFS server. Before that we ran 2.2-19970521-SNAP (or whatever that exactly was named). -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de