From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 24 4: 1:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from brea.mc.mpls.visi.com (brea.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72E1537B416; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 04:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by brea.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64FB12DE110; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 06:01:49 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fBOC1m529522; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 06:01:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 06:01:48 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200112241201.fBOC1m529522@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8a Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com Organization: if (!FIFO) if (!LIFO) break; References: <20011221163036.G1015_windriver.com@ns.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <20011221163036.G1015_windriver.com@ns.sol.net> From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing X-Original-Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.stable To: murray@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20011221163036.G1015_windriver.com@ns.sol.net>, murray@FreeBSD.ORG writes: > > [SNIP] > > In particular, a number of NFS and VM bug fixes have been committed > to -STABLE in the past week. A number of significant bug-fixes and > enhancements have recently been made to our networking stack as well. > More than anything, we just need more users to run 4.5-PRERELEASE and > the upcoming release candidates and report any performance or > stability problems. Please help us make FreeBSD 4.5 our best > performing release ever! I can't install 4.5-PRE, but I've backported Matt's DELACK patches to 4.2-REL, and I've no problems to report, and can say that FTP in particular, and HTTP to a lesser extent, are noticibly improved in speed. The 'tbench' utility also showed a remarkable change, pre- and post- patch. > Thanks, > - Murray Best I can do, sorry. Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message