From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 27 16:51:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ion.gank.org (ion.gank.org [64.81.113.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9F737B439 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aldaris2.auir.gank.org (dsl081-113-221.dfw1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.113.221]) by ion.gank.org (GankMail) with ESMTP id 12BD65379 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:46:21 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: XFree86 faster!? From: Craig Boston To: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3D1B8B77.41C1DDCD@ntlworld.com> References: <200206272131.g5RLVgj93332@lurza.secnetix.de> <3D1B8B77.41C1DDCD@ntlworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 27 Jun 2002 18:46:26 -0500 Message-Id: <1025221591.10363.12.camel@aldaris2.auir.gank.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oliver Fromme wrote: > First of all -- yes, I noticed the sarcasm. > > While the speed improvement that Johannes experienced is > certainly desirable and should not be reversed, it _is_ > somewhat important to find out what caused it. Because > if the cause is unknown, then it could disappear one day > (maybe at the next update), rendering the system slower > again, and you wouldn't be able to do anything about it > because you have no clue what it is. Oh, I agree completely. I certainly didn't mean to imply that it wasn't important to find the cause ;) My apologies, I thought it would be slightly funnier without an explanation giving it away. I haven't noticed anything personally on my -stable machines, but perhaps if Johannes or someone else who's noticed it wants to be adventurous, and has a fast enough machine to do several buildworlds without too much pain, he could try a binary search with the CVS/CVSup dates and find out when the change happened. OFFTOPIC: Is anyone else experiencing odd delays with the mailing lists? For example, I got Ian's reply to Oliver, but have yet to receive Oliver's original reply to me (both sent to stable@). Both messages are in the archive already. I've seen many messages from both stable@ and current@ arriving quite out of order (some by several hours), so I suspect it will show up in my mailbox later. I'm inclined to think that there's a problem with my local MTA/DNS/etc., but I don't see the problem on other lists such as Bugtraq or my personal mail... Craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message