From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 20:55:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1872B106566C for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:55:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail09.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail09.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3858FC19 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:55:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c122-106-215-175.belrs3.nsw.optusnet.com.au [122.106.215.175]) by mail09.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m58Kt7PJ004343 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 06:55:09 +1000 Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m58Kt7ST071185; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 06:55:07 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m58Kt7LC071184; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 06:55:07 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 06:55:06 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Michel Talon , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080608205506.GI67629@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20080608154920.GA8266@lpthe.jussieu.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="x1F0m3RQhDZyj8sd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080608154920.GA8266@lpthe.jussieu.fr> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: Subject: Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:55:12 -0000 --x1F0m3RQhDZyj8sd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2008-Jun-08 17:49:20 +0200, Michel Talon wrote: >and it is now working perfectly well without any trouble. The only >"gotcha" is the slowness of X problem when compiling, but i live with that. Have you tried SCHED_ULE? In my experience, it does a better job of scdeduling than SCHED_4BSD, even on UP machines (YMMV). >which are perhaps susceptible of destabilising it. Personnally i have >seen the same occurring with 6.0, 5.0 and 4.*, for me the last releases >of the 4.* were very poor on my laptop while the early 4.* releases were >perfectly OK. =20 The difficulty with the later 4.x releases was that there were major differences between the 4.x and later kernels and this made it increasingly difficult to backport bugfixes. This is less of an issue with now 4.x is out of the way. --=20 Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. --x1F0m3RQhDZyj8sd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhMRyoACgkQ/opHv/APuIfVrACgxBeYGtq6kuqyRCquTq968eON pXwAnjrIcz0s8Yv0ZLXV1KLDY5cH4DUg =zbJz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x1F0m3RQhDZyj8sd--