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Date:      Sat, 04 Dec 1999 10:26:32 -0700
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?)
Message-ID:  <38494EC8.296BB7C1@softweyr.com>
References:  <199911220127.UAA28430@etinc.com> <Version.32.19991122105556.02b0a4f0@etinc.com>

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Dennis wrote:
> 
> At 07:49 PM 11/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Dennis wrote:
> >
> >> The nightmare of instability of  3.x continues whilst the braintrust flogs
> >> away at 4.x. Its really  a damn shame. And why is 3.x so much slower than
> >> 2.2.8?  Will 4.0 be slower yet?
> >
> >Your vagueness and lack of evidence is astounding.
> 
> The "evidence" is that 3.x chokes in conditions that 2.2.8 and LINUX dont
> on the exact same hardware. Sorry I dont have time to present a case to
> you.

Exactly WHAT did you think you would accomplish with this message?  Let
me summarize what you've said to clarify: "FreeBSD 3.x sucks but I don't
have time tell you where and how it sucks."

My 3.3 machines run until I make world and reboot.  They're not heavily
loaded, just doing Gigabit ethernet testing and spidering the entire WWW.

Did you come here asking for help, or just to throw bricks?

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/


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