Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:48:28 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> Cc: performance@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, danial_thom@yahoo.com, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> Subject: Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x Message-ID: <20061017104828.tpeaw4gj4okook8s@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0610161100y8c20101gcb2a9c27b7da5769@mail.gmail.com> References: <20061015174750.13249.qmail@web33306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <45327764.2080904@protected-networks.net> <20061016032534.GB6398@soaustin.net> <4532FF13.7040708@paradise.net.nz> <3aaaa3a0610161100y8c20101gcb2a9c27b7da5769@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoting Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> (from Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:00:54 +0100): > On 16/10/06, Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> wrote: >> He might have got further by volunteering to create and supply profiles >> for those specific workloads that were faster in 4.x than 6.x on UP >> machinery etc... i.e. help make 6.x better rather than discourage the >> development team (whose efforts are much appreciated by the rest of us >> that are happily using 6.x...) > I recently ordered some servers from a datacentre on lease, specs were > UP p4 2.8ghz gig of ddr2 ram and sata hd, intel lan card. None of the > servers would boot in freebsd 6.x, they booted in freebsd 4.x but > needed a pata controller, they only worked properly in freebsd 5.x. What's the Problem Report number of your bug report? Does it contain =20 the error message of the problem (if there's one), a detailed =20 description of the hardware, and anything else what may be =20 interesting to know about this situation? > It seems their are 2 major problems with freebsd at the moment (1) is > the hardware support is still way behind both linux and windows and > its very frustrating in the amount of datacentres that dont support > freebsd. and (2) the uniprocessor performance remains below par. What's the PR number of your report where you describe under which =20 specific load (and how to produce/simulate this load) it doesn't =20 perform as fast as other operating systems? Bye, Alexander. --=20 MSDOS is not dead, it just smells that way. =09=09-- Henry Spencer http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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