From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 18 21:48:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A611E106566B for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:48:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schlake@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f181.google.com (mail-yw0-f181.google.com [209.85.211.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6698D8FC15 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:48:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh11 with SMTP id 11so1514658ywh.7 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:48:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=AJ54rn1IEgZBoK1m7oMfd7mnuq2eqYmQyTJ2wTj8nR8=; b=jlVowbbgLAcbFdDD2oPZVOocMT4BTIA365nMTk/bbrBYl071te+FFk4wjo/aGOliyJ 0oEQVQf3Gi2AJ/MY8rpX/xNdIj8LwTydMufN/nNw6b/vf2tK7Q36f2S28oajXej6d3fN Hlp85lDlhqiwdGMmRhCyWvc8faJQQI6WOFo0Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=KTcBFk4P4vY7LQgl3z2FrEhiGZBamIYmiO4Z34o7APi4e0muAJ9tQf37nIpz5VBWl9 TsPoBwHcuaRn/+ZRtGPC8qxGFxFlkPECadCCfN7H/ysJNC2yaOA21ws+3ZqzEvTbrLYd VpdMpZDPV+oCXKCUYbLfet33VRG5248amNe0I= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.88.35 with SMTP id y35mr654704vcl.238.1276897735188; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:48:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.190.205 with HTTP; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:48:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:48:55 -0600 Message-ID: From: "William D. Colburn (Schlake)" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: 8.1 speed issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:48:59 -0000 So I've just upgraded from whatever was stable in 2004 to 8.1 (it's a private file server in my house, I pay no attention to it until it crashes), and uh, the speed difference is very noticeable. In short, it's like I bought a brand new machine that eleven times as fast when all I did was upgrade the OS. How on earth did you guys make such a dramatic improvement? -- -- Schlake