Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 07:27:14 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Walker, Michael" <Michael.Walker2@capita.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? Message-ID: <20041007142714.GC96182@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <A95E24C61BD9D611AF6200080255E43A0A24D5FB@CAPITAEMAIL02> References: <A95E24C61BD9D611AF6200080255E43A0A24D5FB@CAPITAEMAIL02>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:16:49PM +0100, Walker, Michael wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway > Sent: 07 October 2004 15:10 > To: Bigelow, Andrea L. > Cc: TM4525@aol.com; questions@freebsd.org; 'Kris Kennaway' > Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? > > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:04:59AM -0400, Bigelow, Andrea L. wrote: > > Can anyone speak to performance improvement if the debug flags are > removed? > > Well, it's vast :) 5.3 (i.e. the RELENG_5 branch) has them turned off > already in preparation for the release. > > Kris > -----End Original Message----- > > What is performance like in 5.2.1 with them turned off? Not so good -- as we've been discussing in this thread, 5.2.1 was clearly marked as a development release for early adopters, and it was a work in progress for which significant optimization had not yet been performed. That has changed, and 5.3 now performs a lot better than 4.x under many workloads (particularly network-related). Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBZVJCWry0BWjoQKURAsotAJ9ypCrZyPwxvNExx1ZZsgO05E4rGQCfQSU5 nHxyMWHdvkk1Y+0KPfcw44A= =B5ns -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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