From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 10:18:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D58916A41F; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:18:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (jojo.ms-net.de [84.16.236.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB7843D45; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:18:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (p54A5FA2E.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.250.46]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jA79u5li062855; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:56:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jA7AI021050197; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:18:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.cec.eu.int (pslux.cec.eu.int [158.169.9.14]) by netchild.homeip.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:18:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20051107111800.e199ndcxa8s0c444@netchild.homeip.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:18:00 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Dirk Meyer References: <20051106.131413.122956532.yasu@utahime.org> <1131176568.3960.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20051106.131413.122956532.yasu@utahime.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.3) / FreeBSD-4.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: le@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: vinum, 5.x performance, ... (was: Re: ANNOUNCE: GNOME 2.12.1 has been merged into the ports tree) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:18:12 -0000 Dirk Meyer wrote: > Jeremy Messenger schrieb:, > >> But, we will accept any patch that fix for FreeBSD 4.x as long it doesn't >> break with FreeBSD 5.x, 6.x and 7.x. There is no reason to keep FreeBSD >> 4.x for desktop. > > Well well, hold the horses .... > There are still a dozens regression in 5.x > - vimum/gvinum ist not working with 4.x volumes Is this also true for 6.0? If yes, does Lukas know about it? > - and performaces is a nightmare on atapi harddisks AFAIR 4.x enables the write cache (bad if there's a power failure in the soft-updates case, since without native command queueing the drivers may reorder writes witout the possibility to notify soft-updates about it), while 5+ disables it. Enable it in loader.conf and your performance should change. > - em0 gigabit ethernet solws down to 40kb/s I think this is fixed in 6.0. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.