From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 11:16:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F251416A4CE; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:16:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay19-f10.bay19.hotmail.com [64.4.53.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA4F143D4C; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:16:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joefso@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 04:16:01 -0700 Received: from 80.61.67.150 by by19fd.bay19.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:15:57 GMT X-Originating-IP: [80.61.67.150] X-Originating-Email: [joefso@hotmail.com] X-Sender: joefso@hotmail.com From: "n.v.t n.v.t" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:15:57 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Oct 2004 11:16:01.0136 (UTC) FILETIME=[2E4CEF00:01C4B696] X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:12:51 +0000 cc: joefso@hotmail.com Subject: Freebsd and performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:16:02 -0000 Hi I have been following news for quite a while now and I have tested several fbsd releases form 4.X and 5.2.1 releases from all I have noticed is that I liked 4.X very much especially the memory management, harvest performance, actually the overall performance and the widely available documentation, well that's one of the main reasons why freebsd is known to me. Know you guys coming close to the 5.3 -stable release alot of users are going to upgrade/switch, right, because this is what we have been waiting for. What about the performance that 4.X had? Will the performance be equal ? Will it be having better performance? Even on low end machines? And especially sinds freebsd is becoming more and more ready for desktop use, performance is a big issue on desktops.(look at Gnu/Linux for example, which I have been using for a very long time know, and all I can remember is that almost all of the releases have scheduling/latency issues. When I was using 2.2/2.4/2.6 All I have seen where low latency patches. What about freebsd? I'm so exited to try out the new freebsd release. Butt a couple of questions are desired first. As all you have noticed the above^ part, will fbsd have the same performance or better? When will this be ready 5.3.X ? Could I get some more accurate information about this? Since I'm planning to use it on my desktop. I have only been reading the bsd section at slashdot so I don't know much about the progress you guys are making on the feature release. Is there a offical news site for freebsd users? Like openbsd has *deadly.org. What about the compile flags freebsd RC is using compared to 5.3 -stable will there be a lot of changes? What about gnome packages? Will 2.8 make it in 5.3 stable (iso)? If those things are taking a while to be there, does fbsd have any kernel patches like linux does to improve desktop performance? For example like: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ Joe (PLEASE CC ME, I"M NOT SUBSCRIBED) _________________________________________________________________ MSN Zoeken helpt je om de gekste dingen te vinden! http://search.msn.nl