From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 10 04:50:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBFFC16A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:50:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from server1.mataira.com (dsl093-133-205.sfo4.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.133.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77DC543D31 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:50:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vbkumar@mataira.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (dsl093-133-178.sfo4.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.133.178])i9A4ugne008410; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 21:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vbkumar@mataira.com) Message-ID: <4168BF5A.2050004@mataira.com> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 21:49:30 -0700 From: Balakumar Velmurugan Organization: Mataira Systems, Inc User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Macintosh/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vulpes Velox References: <41686104.20409@mataira.com> <20041009183626.74f97fb7@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <20041009183626.74f97fb7@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Release Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bala@mataira.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:50:34 -0000 Vulpes Velox wrote: >On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 15:07:00 -0700 >Balakumar Velmurugan wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> We are starting development on a new project that would go >>production in the fall of 2005. I have been evaluating Release 4.x >>and 5.x branches for the suitability. Our target platform is AMD64 >>and AMD32 uni-processor systems. We like most of 5.x features except >>for its performance and conerns about the availability of a STABLE >>version in our time window, and I would like your opinion to choose >>the right FreeBSD version tree to start the development right now. >>BTW, we dont have any plans to run on SMP architecture, our target >>platform will always be uni-processor based. Questions are, >> >>1. By Sep 2005, do you think 5.x performance will be optimized and >>be comparable to today's 4.x stable versions ? >> >> > >Which did you test? Did you turn debugging and ect off? Tried >5.3beta7 yet? > > I tried 5.2.1 and havent tried the beta7, yet. Can you tell me, what is the release tag for beta7 ?. RELENG_5_3_BETA7 didnt work for me !! Thanks for your pointers. > > >>2. By Sep 2005, do you think 5.x will be as stable as today's 4.x >>released versions ? >> >> > >http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html > > > >>3. What is the most architecturally optimized FreeBSD version if he >>primary application is network services, IP forwarding and various >>TCP/UDP services ? >>4. What is the most architecturally optimized FreeBSD version if he >>primary application is network services, IP forwarding and various >>TCP/UDP services ? >> >> > >Not tried forwarding yet on 5x, but for TCP/UDP services, not speed >problems with them on my box. > >Wait a bit till 5.3 is released and then bench market it after >optimizing it. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >