From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 21 20:20:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from orvieto.eecs.harvard.edu (orvieto.eecs.harvard.edu [140.247.60.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2361915958; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 20:20:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stein@eecs.harvard.edu) Received: from localhost (stein@localhost) by orvieto.eecs.harvard.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA06153; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:20:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stein@eecs.harvard.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: orvieto.eecs.harvard.edu: stein owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:20:05 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Stein To: Kris Kennaway Cc: FreeBSD , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Christopher Stein wrote: > > > Dennis has a good point. > > Dennis has no point unless he provides some numbers to quantify his > claim. His point was not a claim about performance, rather he was bringing into question whether performance was improving with successive releases. > > Witness: > > FreeBSD 3.X is the fastest thing I have ever seen: it's so much faster > than 2.X, I can only guess what 4.X is going to be like! > > There, now we're neutral again :-) > What do you mean by fastest? What does it do so much faster than 2.x? Fast at what? chris stein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message