Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:36:15 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: David Greenman <dg@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD/OS compatibility (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf .. Message-ID: <19990312103615.J490@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <5303.921195837@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 03:43:57PM -0800 References: <19990311152448.A19522@best.com> <5303.921195837@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Thursday, 11 March 1999 at 15:43:57 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> I think it is better to give people boxes which can be tweaked to the >> max then for us to worry about BSDi compatibility. > > Well, more to the point, we shouldn't just fall over kicking the > minute somebody installs us on a "server class" machine that we claim > represents our bread-and-butter market. Something similar to this > (>64MB memory detection) is what cost us a major magazine performance > review against Linux and BSD/OS when we ended up getting tested with > 64MB of memory and the other OSes saw and used the full 128MB, skewing > the benchmark results against us for the high-load case. That really > sucked and we don't need that happening again, a whole lot more than > we need to run a very diminishing number of BSD/OS binaries. Most > ISVs appear, sadly, to be rapidly abandoning that market and BSDI > itself isn't all too healthy these days. None of this really answers my question (well, indirectly I suppose it does). Sure, I understand the necessity of maintaining performance on machines with large memory, and if it breaks BSDI compatibility, this may be a necessary evil. But most machines don't have 2 GB of memory, and it might make sense, for example, to make the choice a kernel configuration option. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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