From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 02:09:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF0B1065671 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:09:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5466D8FC1E for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:09:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd4mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.215]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K3B00MMQ1Y0YNA0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:08:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd4mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K3B009IW1Y0FC60@pd4mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:08:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home ([70.67.160.176]) by l-daemon (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K3B00N371XY2D00@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:08:22 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gom.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72EC6B839 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:08:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:08:21 -0700 From: prad In-reply-to: <48698AB9.7070802@cwis.biz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080630190821.1e0cc713@gom.home> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <48698AB9.7070802@cwis.biz> Subject: Re: Configuring an older server for speed... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:09:30 -0000 On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:39:05 -0500 Ryan Coleman wrote: > I would recommend fBSD 6.3 instead of 7. You don't need it, unless > you have a documented reason it has to be 7.0 > really?! i thought 7 was supposed to be a big improvement over 6.3: "Dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability shown by various database and other benchmarks,in some cases showing peak performance improvements as high as 350% over FreeBSD 6.X under normal loads and 1500% at high loads." http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html we've had a lot of trouble though installing 7 on some of our older machines (6.3 is easy and worked well too) because the cdrom doesn't always cooperate. but we got it to work with some extra effort, because we thought it would be better. is it possible that the older versions work better on older machines? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's