Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 12:46:00 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Peter Ong <peter@haloflightleader.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011224124542.29753H-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <000a01c18c49$701dffc0$0101a8c0@haloflightleader.net>
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Great! Let us know if you run into any further problems. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Peter Ong wrote: > This time I tried watching like three Quicktime movies. No skips. It was > perfect. Did I mention that I love FreeBSD? Because right around about > now, I wouldn't have been able to tell it was a Unix/(sort of -- actually > Intel) box. (o:`, > > YYYEEEEEHHHHHHHHAAAAAA!!!! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Ong" <peter@haloflightleader.net> > To: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 9:45 PM > Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing > > > > Found the answer. Only a suspicion though. > > > > When I had RH7.1/Samba, there was no skips, I told you. But, when I > finally > > moved to FreeBSD, my mp3 was skipping. I couldn't even watch movies > > anymore. I said it would only happen after about a minute was through the > > song. > > > > What I didn't think to correlate was the amount of free space on the > client > > machine which is my Windows98SE laptop. There was like some 40MB free > left. > > I didn't set a partition specifically swap on the Windex machine either. > > > > Hence, I was right about my theory. It was reading the cache faster than > it > > could be written because there wasn't much space to write a larger cache. > > Thus, it was skipping. I re-installed this evening the laptop. No more > > skipping. But then again there is more than 2GB of space open. No more > > skipping. > > > > Back to my original theory. FreeBSD rewls! Yeah! Around about the same > > time I installed Visio on my laptop which took a lot of space. There was > > already a lot of clutter on the hdd to begin with. Visio exacerbated the > > problem. > > > > Now, no visio. Woohoo! > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> > > To: "Peter Ong" <peter@haloflightleader.net> > > Cc: "Nevermind" <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>; "Murray Stokely" > > <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>; <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG>; > > <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 2:18 PM > > Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing > > > > > > > The theory goes that there are a number of TCP improvements, in > particular > > > a bugfix involving the newreno algorithm, that should address this > > > specific problem. Once our first release candidate comes out, we'd > really > > > appreciate it if you had the chance to test and see if that fixes the > > > problem. It should be out around Jan 5, 2002. If it doesn't, please > post > > > to freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org ASAP. (an upgrade on the -STABLE branch > should > > > also fix it). > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project > > > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services > > > > > > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Peter Ong wrote: > > > > > > > I apologize if I'm off. But it seems you guys are talking about > > improving > > > > FBSD 4.5 networking performance. > > > > > > > > I am currently using FreeBSD 4.4 Release. It works great, but there > is > > that > > > > one problem Samba. I like Samba because it's functional. I don't > know > > if > > > > it's Samba's fault, or if it's BSD's fault, but it behaves very > > erratically. > > > > Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's slow. > > > > > > > > When I used RH7.1, I installed Samba there as well. Samba worked > fine, > > but > > > > also with the same behavior. But it was somewhat more reliable on RH > > than > > > > FreeBSD. I don't know if it's Samba itself or the OS, although I'm > > inclined > > > > to say it is Samba. If so, disregard this message. > > > > > > > > When I used RH/Samba, I put all of my MP3 music there. I'd listen to > it > > on > > > > Winamp from my Win98 laptop. It worked fine... no skips. But when I > > put > > > > it on FreeBSD, the first minute or so is skip free, but as it passes > > that > > > > time limit it starts skipping... I mean, it blanks out as if it's > > readying > > > > the cache faster than it's being transfered over the network. My > > network is > > > > 10/100Mbits switched. > > > > > > > > The difference is now only the operating system. The box is a > > P3/450/128MB. > > > > It had RH, then it moved to FreeBSD. Now, I'm having that problem. > > Videos > > > > are even worse. I have some *.mov, and Real movie files, that I must > > first > > > > download, and then I watch. I can't watch it over the wire. > > > > > > > > This is just my two cents. Maybe 5 cents. Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> > > > > To: "Nevermind" <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> > > > > Cc: "Murray Stokely" <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>; <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; > > > > <freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG>; <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> > > > > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 10:53 AM > > > > Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Nevermind wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, Murray Stokely! > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 04:30:37PM -0800, you wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > There were some problems with the network performance of > FreeBSD > > 4.4 > > > > > > > that were never discovered during the release candidates phase, > so > > I'd > > > > > > > like to take a more pro-active role in getting users to test the > > > > > > > system in more demanding environments. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > A complete list of changes is available in the 4.5-PRERELEASE > > > > > > > release notes, available at : > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/ > > > > > > > > > > > > Could you, please, include in Relnotes that Java will be included > in > > > > > > 4.5? > > > > > > > > > > I have't seen that support actually appear in ports/packages-land as > > yet, > > > > > but I greatly look forward to that happening. It would probably be > > > > > appropriate to wait until the details have been committed before > > > > > documenting it. > > > > > > > > > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project > > > > > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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