From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 21 09:13:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA22569 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:13:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA22558 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:13:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA27840; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:13:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA14398; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:13:34 -0700 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:13:34 -0700 Message-Id: <199711211713.KAA14398@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Charles Henrich , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serious performance issue with 2.2.5-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <3057.880101505@time.cdrom.com> References: <199711210611.BAA01289@crh.cl.msu.edu> <3057.880101505@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Now Now, not all of us have spare hardware to throw around, besides I've done > > Well, now hang on a second.. If you're going to be an ISP, at least > one who takes himself and his services halfway seriously, then surely > cost of an extra PC (or, as I noted, even just an extra *disk*) is > going to pale in comparison to the cost of inflicting instability > on your user base. In defense of Jaye, let's say he did bring in a spare PC, loaded it up with 2.2.5 and it worked fine in his 'fake' load environment. But, when he moved it into 'real' production use, it started seeing those kinds of problems. Would his problem be taken more seriously then? (He does seem to imply that it's load related, and as we all know it's difficult to simulate real-world load conditions everywhere except the real world.) Nate