From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 14:14:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA13716A4CE for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 14:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aries.ai.net (aries.ai.net [205.134.163.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819F943D31 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 14:14:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deepak@ai.net) Received: from ai.net ([141.156.111.75]) by aries.ai.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04105; Thu, 27 May 2004 17:12:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from deepak@ai.net) Message-ID: <40B659AB.7070109@ai.net> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 17:12:11 -0400 From: Deepak Jain User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: bjohns123@msn.com Subject: Re: KVA space problems? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 21:14:02 -0000 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > First of all, you need to realize that GoBSD is a DragonFly advocacy > site. That doesn't necessarily make it a bad site, but it does mean > it's biased. I'm only going to respond to the opinion section of the post, not the technical patch. "The successor of the very stable and reliable line of the FreeBSD 4.x series is the development line of DragonFlyBSD." -http://gobsd.com/bsd My question to that author would be "Why base something off of something unstable?" For the record, we run over 35,000 FreeBSD machines all over the world (real number is higher, I'm just giving you the last total I have) as production, 24/7 machines on our own network. We are fine with DragonFly too, but its more like choosing from types of the same fruit, not necessarily apples and oranges.. think Golden Delicious vs Red Delicious. I don't have anything to technically discuss the memory concerns in that patch only that everything is solvable. Yahoo and hundreds of other companies rely on FreeBSD for production equipment. DJ