From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 01:49:08 2005 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 D870A16A4E4; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:49:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-d03.mx.aol.com (imo-d03.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1AA43D53; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:49:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Tm4528@aol.com) Received: from Tm4528@aol.com by imo-d03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id n.e6.60ddf79e (3964); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:48:57 -0500 (EST) From: Tm4528@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:48:56 EST To: rwatson@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5116 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: dave@horsfall.org cc: tedm@toybox.placo.com cc: kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.3 Performance 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: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:49:08 -0000 Your "point" doesn't address the lack of support for major chipsets, so that users can utilitize the latest fast processors available. The point is that those using 4.x because of its performance advantages, cannot use it with the latest processors because the MBs don't work in 4.x. THAT is the problem.