Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 02:50:52 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What I'd like to see brought to -stable Message-ID: <199602011050.CAA01444@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 1996 10:00:09 %2B0200." <199602010800.KAA29987@office.elvisti.kiev.ua>
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>1. (kernel) A fix for "system binds" problem (IDE system with X11 > "goes asleep" periodically for random periods of time). I think this is workable. The problem is apparantly in the object clean code, and I think the changes can be retrofitted. >2. "phk malloc" by Paul Henning Kampf. It's one of the best performance > improvements I've seen, why recompile approx. entire world after > dropping it into an installed system? And, taken from -current, > it works without a glitch -- only _times_ faster :) No, sorry, this won't be in the release. The main problem is that phk's malloc does a better job recycling memory and this exposes bugs in applications. Since 2.1-stable is supposed to be "stable", I don't want to rock the boat - the result would only be the appearance that 2.1-stable was far less than stable even though the real problem is in the apps. Since "apps" also includes our *own* /usr/src, this would look very bad. There's also a question as to whether all of the bugs in phkmalloc have been worked out. A fairly serious bug was found just a few weeks ago. >3. "STARTUP_SETLOCALE hack" removal and a couple of localization > changes done by Andrew Chernov throughout the userland > utilities. I don't have a problem with this as long as Andrey is dedicated to managing the changes. I'm not going to touch this myself, however. >4. A new groff (1.10). It's way nice to have direct LaserJet printing! I think this would be okay if someone was dedicated to doing the upgrade. Like #3, I won't be doing this myself. >5. Recent PPP improvements. Yes, definately. ...and lots of other fixes that haven't been mentioned. We'll be going through all the changes soon to find other candidates. -DG David Greenman Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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