From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 21 18:14:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E22416A57A for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 18:14:58 +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 DDFF043D49 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 18:14:57 +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 BFD4D1A4DD2; Sun, 21 May 2006 11:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F170E51742; Sun, 21 May 2006 14:14:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 14:14:55 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Brett Glass Message-ID: <20060521181455.GB59697@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200605160135.TAA04838@lariat.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200605160135.TAA04838@lariat.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.11 snapshots? 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, 21 May 2006 18:15:04 -0000 --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 07:35:53PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > Is there a server currently furnishing snapshots of the FreeBSD 4.11 security > branch? We have some servers running various 4.x versions that might not be > happy with 6.x due to memory requirements. They also might have slower file > access (The file system in FreeBSD 6.x still isn't as snappy as the one > in 4.x, though I hope this will change). So, we'd like to upgrade them to > a patch level that includes all recent security fixes. Are ISOs available? FYI, it is only soft updates (really bufdaemon, through which all the I/O passes) that has performance problems under high load on 6.x compared to 4.x. Other mount modes perform quite a bit better (e.g. 30% faster for async write performance) than 4.x on the hardware I tested. http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/bsdcan/Filesystem%20Performance.pdf Kris P.S. Don't link to the above URL, I need to send it to Dan for publication on the BSDCan site, to which you should link instead. --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFEcK4fWry0BWjoQKURAhviAJsHUll9QnGOvq7d6kTebr3aQz8z9QCYsitn OACSo5NllCs4WU+EsX3faw== =QhC5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7--