From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 4 8:37:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B99FB14BDD; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 08:37:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA16504; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:39:06 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: Message-Id: X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 11:34:39 -0500 To: Mike Smith , Kris Kennaway From: Dennis Subject: Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199911220720.XAA06603@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:20 PM 11/21/99 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> > His point was not a claim about performance, rather he was bringing into >> > question whether performance was improving with successive releases. >> >> Sounded very much to me like he was just vaguely griping about how slow >> and unstable newer versions of FreeBSD are compared to the good old days. >> Dennis will be able to clarify this for us all when he posts his benchmark >> specs. > >Dennis has been whining and griping about just about everything since >day one. You can't realistically consider that sort of activity on his >part as any sort of metric at all. There was a time that when someone reported a problem there was interest in finding out what it might be. Now you mock the person reporting it. I guess thats why everyone in the world is using linux. Its disheartening to realize that things apparently wont be getting much better. DB Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com ISA and PCI T1/T3/V35/HSSI Cards for FreeBSD and LINUX Multiport T1 and HSSI/T3 UNIX-based Routers Bandwidth Management Standalone Systems Bandwidth Management software for LINUX and FreeBSD DSL Frame Relay Bridging over T1 and T3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message