From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 21 23:29:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles523.castles.com [208.214.165.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A7114FAC; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:29:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06603; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:20:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199911220720.XAA06603@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 Nov 1999 20:42:42 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:20:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > His point was not a claim about performance, rather he was bringing into > > question whether performance was improving with successive releases. > > Sounded very much to me like he was just vaguely griping about how slow > and unstable newer versions of FreeBSD are compared to the good old days. > Dennis will be able to clarify this for us all when he posts his benchmark > specs. Dennis has been whining and griping about just about everything since day one. You can't realistically consider that sort of activity on his part as any sort of metric at all. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message