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From: Barrett Lyon <blyon@blyon.com>
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> In fairness, if you care about network bandwidth more than stability,
> HEAD is the place to be. On my hardware if_mxge can get 9.3Gbps and
> if_cxgb can get full line rate. if_mxge isn't even in RELENG_6 and
> if_cxgb performance is at least 25% worse on RELENG_6.

I can concur, that's why there is so much pressure to use HEAD, it's  
a substantial difference and all the network performance is found in  
HEAD, but it's useless if my disk arrays crash after writing some  
logs.  :)

-Barrett