From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 23 19:50:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 503E316A41C for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:50:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED04C43D49 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:50:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2CE9A513A7; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:51:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 12:51:23 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Jakubik Message-ID: <20050523195123.GA13810@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3248.172.16.0.199.1116876092.squirrel@172.16.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3248.172.16.0.199.1116876092.squirrel@172.16.0.1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches) 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: Mon, 23 May 2005 19:50:37 -0000 --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:21:32PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Could someone point me to a resource that outlines the expected supported > lifetime of all the branches? Can't find anything concrete on the webpage. >=20 > I'm developing a product, which i hope will run on FreeBSD. However the > rapid development of 5, and now 6 arriving out in a few months has me > worried if FreeBSD will be the right choice short and long term. I have > even considered using 4.11 for its stability and speed on single processor > systems, but I'm worried that some ports/hw will not be supported. The common wisdom has been that FreeBSD 4.11 is faster than 5.4 on single processor systems. Imagine my surprise when I went and actually benchmarked this on the package build machines, and found that 5.4 outperforms 4.11 by at least 10% when performing identical workloads on identical UP hardware :-) Stay tuned for more details... Kris --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCkjQ7Wry0BWjoQKURAs7nAJ9o4rP/bQv1uW3nkB/wJb9i5adiZwCgwn2/ MwnOnEcO6YJuW2vB2P2vc+o= =cyzj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW--