From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 16:59:32 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 904F316A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:59:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48A9C43D53 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:59:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C59C05150C; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:59:55 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "n.v.t n.v.t" Message-ID: <20041020165955.GD17309@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6Nae48J/T25AfBN4" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd and performance 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: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:59:32 -0000 --6Nae48J/T25AfBN4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:15:57AM +0000, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: > Know you guys coming close to the 5.3 -stable release alot of users are= =20 > going to upgrade/switch, right, because this is what we have been waiting= =20 > for. What about the performance that 4.X had? Will the performance be equ= al=20 > ? Will it be having better performance? Even on low end machines? And=20 > especially sinds freebsd is becoming more and more ready for desktop use,= =20 > performance is a big issue on desktops.(look at Gnu/Linux for example,=20 > which I have been using for a very long time know, and all I can remember= =20 > is that almost all of the releases have scheduling/latency issues. When I= =20 > was using 2.2/2.4/2.6 All I have seen where low latency patches. What abo= ut=20 > freebsd? Benchmarks I've seen show 5.3 performing better than 4.x in many workloads. Try it yourself and see if you like it :) > I have only been reading the bsd section at slashdot so I don't know much= =20 > about the progress you guys are making on the feature release. Is there a= =20 > offical news site for freebsd users? Like openbsd has *deadly.org. www.freebsd.org :-) bsdnews.com is also good; slashdot.org is probably the worst possible news source you could be reading :-) > What about the compile flags freebsd RC is using compared to 5.3 -stable= =20 > will there be a lot of changes? No changes. > What about gnome packages? Will 2.8 make it in 5.3 stable (iso)? No, the ports tree is already frozen and packages are built. > If those things are taking a while to be there, does fbsd have any kernel= =20 > patches like linux does to improve desktop performance? For example like:= =20 > http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ Not that I'm aware of, we like to commit patches that improve performance instead of leaving them out :-) Kris --6Nae48J/T25AfBN4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBdpmLWry0BWjoQKURAv2eAJ4t6Hrd0qHmy9L7ABWWMIQA1yGK3QCeJgHE 4JyhkWZQRLEQXGOaSN4/m/E= =Lfpg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6Nae48J/T25AfBN4--