From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 7 4:50:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A36E37B400; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 04:50:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 17GIFq-000Mbj-00; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:50:06 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g57Bo5083610; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:50:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:50:04 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Mike Silbersack Cc: John Baldwin , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP/5.0 performance on single CPU? Message-ID: <20020607125004.A83543@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20020607011035.B79818@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020606191745.V3036-100000@patrocles.silby.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20020606191745.V3036-100000@patrocles.silby.com>; from silby@silby.com on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 07:23:29PM -0500 X-Scanner: exiscan *17GIFq-000Mbj-00*eV.pQ/0H2fU* (Manchester Computing, University of Manchester) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | On the other hand, there are numerous new features (GEOM, TrustedBSD, | OpenPAM, Snapshots + background fsck, etc) being implemented in 5.x that It appears that most of these are features that are 'use as needed.' In other words, if I don't need them, I don't need to know about them. On the other hand, when moving to 4.0 there were issues with hardware (specifically PC-cards and sound) that gave me a hard time for quite a while. These were less about new features and more about underlying architecture and stability, and getting new code to work correctly. Other than devfs (which I haven't investigated yet) it seems most of these features are extras, not the basics, correct? Other than SMP, of course. jm -- There are only 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message