From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 22 9:36:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (penelope.skunk.org [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15FB614C0A for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:36:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA90554; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 12:43:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 12:43:45 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?) In-Reply-To: <69140.943250821@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Bringing something into question without detail is useless. If I > seriously questioned your sexual orientation, for example, you'd have > every right to ask me just what the hell I was basing such a question > on and why I was uncertain about it in the first place. Dennis has no > less of an obligation to define his terms and not simply wave his > hands. > > And besides, you need to read his message again - he DID make a claim > about performance, he said it was slower than 2.2.x. That by itself, > unfortunately, means precisely nothing. In my tests, I've found that FreeBSD is getting faster with successive releases -- I think because the increased weight of the extra disks helps overcome wind resistance. HTH, HAND. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message