From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 10 05:44:35 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 7B9AF16A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 05:44:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.cableone.net (scanmail1.cableone.net [24.116.0.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3645D43D1D for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 05:44:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net (unverified [24.119.122.25]) by smail1.cableone.net (SurgeMail 1.9b) with ESMTP id 21223061 for multiple; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 22:44:20 -0700 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:43:41 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox To: bala@mataira.com Message-ID: <20041010004341.02c73919@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <4168BF5A.2050004@mataira.com> References: <41686104.20409@mataira.com> <20041009183626.74f97fb7@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <4168BF5A.2050004@mataira.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com cc: vbkumar@mataira.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Release Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 05:44:35 -0000 On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 21:49:30 -0700 Balakumar Velmurugan wrote: > 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. RELENG_5 will get you the newest version of 5x