From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 16:31:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.usishealth.com (adsl-216-62-210-29.dsl.austtx.swbell.net [216.62.210.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6999D14EEB for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:31:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erik@usishealth.com) Received: from usishealth.com (localhost.usishealth.com [127.0.0.1]) by ns2.usishealth.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57C71AE86 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:34:38 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <387E6F1E.5B07A064@usishealth.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:34:38 -0600 From: Erik de Zeeuw X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.4,gcc or 4.0,egcs, advice needed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm currently setting up a web application server, which will use Apache and its servlet module, JServ. The servlets will use a MySQL database that also sits on the same machine. We were until now using a computer equiped with FreeBSD 2.2.8 to do the job, and we're moving to a new computer since the old one begins to get really old. The performance were satisfying, although I didn't had to tweak around. But the fact is, the new server will have to be the fastest as possible because the server will soon be much more busy than it used to be. So I'm searching for the best performance with what I have, that is a dual p2-500 computer, a FreeBSD-3.4-RELEASE and a 4.0-20000110 snapshot. As the 4.0 tree natively uses egcs, or gcc-2.95, compiler, and as a lots of people told me that it was better than the old classic gcc, I was wondering if running the server on a 4.0 snapshot would be forth the try in terms of performance. For now I'm planning on using the 3.4-RELEASE, but I was wondering how egcs can improve the performance, if it does, and if it at the cost of stability. I'll be glad to hear from peoples who knows the answer, Thanks in advance, Erik de Zeeuw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message