From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 17:59:14 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 23B4A16A437 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:59:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 030E643DAE for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:56:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l8so513160nzf for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:56:46 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LzFlQqD2c3AqnqbA3JX9lm39wDlrhKnezAhBx/cja4UqfqSMoznIyhWJZmQIgFu42hCPD8AsPVFuyzqrgmz8TbLC+YQQuQEP3FtW9Zv8E/9iS28JLVI6CcTyGFRxcsRAf0mbXFauXJ++NKmdaOSGi7q7p+Eigyik1BYCyh+XaQY= Received: by 10.35.91.10 with SMTP id t10mr368256pyl; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:51:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.36.18 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:51:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0603300051r449b4754l78fe509674d47bb9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:51:15 +0100 From: Chris To: "Kris Kennaway" In-Reply-To: <20060329200032.GA79386@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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> <20060329200032.GA79386@xor.obsecurity.org> Cc: DAve , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:59:14 -0000 On 29/03/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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. > > 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 > > I didnt do a PR except one for a minor bug since there was nothing logged on it just died, I have kept one machine running 6.0 so I can try and resolve the problem and also will upgrade it to 6.1 on release to see if things are better, should I enable debugging options so it has better chance of logging something? Chris