From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 19 01:54:41 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 640CB106564A for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:54:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E770E8FC0C for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:54:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 22098 invoked by uid 399); 19 Jun 2010 01:54:40 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 19 Jun 2010 01:54:40 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C1C235E.2080000@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:54:38 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "William D. Colburn (Schlake)" References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:54:41 -0000 On 06/18/10 14:48, William D. Colburn (Schlake) wrote: > 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? Only 11? We must be slipping ... Doug (Thanks for the kind words, they really are appreciated) -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/