From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 13:14:14 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 1A0EA16A41F for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:14:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1.sentex.ca [64.7.153.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AFC43D62 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:14:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from pumice6.sentex.ca (pumice6.sentex.ca [64.7.153.21]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9KDECvs025710 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:14:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by pumice6.sentex.ca (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9KDEBXY020087; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:14:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9KDE9U2024313 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:14:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.0.20051020090138.07c51ae0@64.7.153.2> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:13:14 -0400 To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <435794C7.4070700@veldy.net> References: <435794C7.4070700@veldy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 64.7.153.18 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 64.7.153.21 Cc: Subject: Re: General consensus about upgrading from 5.x to 6.x? 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: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:14:14 -0000 At 08:59 AM 20/10/2005, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: >I run a very small home office network and domain off of my DSL. >Currently, I have a FreeBSD 5.4p8 firewall (pf) running. I am >really not having any issues, but sometimes the machines gets a bit >stodgy for no solid reason [load shouldn't be that high]. I have >considered the jump to 6.0 6.0 is not really like the previous dot zero releases. 6.0 is more akin of going from 3.1 to 3.2 as opposed to 4.x to 5.0. It really is quite stable >How well does the new ULE scheduler (presumably no preemption) play >on servers in 6.0? Stick with the regular scheduler. ULE is supposed to be fixed, but YMMV ---Mike