From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 29 20:00:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 C822E16A423 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:00:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D5EB43D55 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:00:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4991A4DD6; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:00:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B4D28515BF; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:00:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:00:32 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Chris Message-ID: <20060329200032.GA79386@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com> <4429A37D.2020500@pixelhammer.com> <20060328213953.GA2682@xor.obsecurity.org> <4429B479.7000408@pixelhammer.com> <20060328224340.GA4063@xor.obsecurity.org> <442ACFB2.70108@pixelhammer.com> <20060329183051.GA78889@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060329190517.GA79103@xor.obsecurity.org> <3aaaa3a0603291148y5065754ag178e4dc7c9ee7986@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0603291148y5065754ag178e4dc7c9ee7986@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: DAve , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Why are so many people using 4.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:00:34 -0000 --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:48:07PM +0100, Chris wrote: > Well without a doubt 4.x is the fastest and most stable freebsd out of > the 3. The comment earlier where it just runs and runs is a good way > of describing it. 6.x is faster at filesystem performance and other tasks. > 5.x had a big performance hit and 6.x is noticeably faster but I have > been experiencing weird lockups with 6.x and have reverted all but one > of my servers back to 5.4 that were running 6.0 and they became stable > again, we have one server running 6.1 prerelease which is more stable > then 6.0 so I would rate 6.0 as a poor release, sorry but it only is > stable under low load on every server I tried it on.=20 Sorry to hear that, can you point me to the PRs you filed so I can take a look? > Kris and others > have you been testing 6.0 in server environments with things such as > ddos attacks and thousands of concurrent connections, sustained heavy > traffic ongoing for days etc, these type of things have caused 6.0 to > just die on me. Yes, and so have companies like Yahoo! who are so pleased with 6.x that they are deploying it company-wide. Kris --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEKudfWry0BWjoQKURAuRnAKCqX7HetXwpQlvwxxL5jwFfbeU7tQCgmgZF SD73M5YnTcMwx+2Q6ukvxwg= =h0W+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--