From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 18:15:16 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 CD6FC106564A for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:15:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DDA38FC1D for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:15:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so6831wfg.7 for ; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:15:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=e9qfR+E5t3vQlOWUJxRYKwDE6z/jJ59elR4DjHJ+dUM=; b=daFh5jCDV4EJ8/EgX2EOfbfn/ceuaBzVlUU12XBgkd77mYccwFQQr2QdmgVDm3WGcG okNjxTanU5c3owG4avoOjq7XRgBSEZn0WGv8eZrli3SWI0cMithuOTPuRjR9lOGjxP5Q OpXxnMxWq5rIBONzU8dC3tnh9EVil9UGLu+Ks= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=JVN8MYi63/oyDG+9t/s+NkyHkcM63svEqMpGCU6RiTza0XtzdLxEu2i6A6hJzxDB8m 7KJHcbnLDxn2BK1290QM9a/RoRlKUQSUPsdwjRZpmn7vK57lFwqwaZY6uQILtqBzz3d7 irVYqneC06Ux5DLA5K9qQyAenBEoHgOa9l4n4= Received: by 10.142.222.4 with SMTP id u4mr2595318wfg.250.1214936116408; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.156.7 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:15:16 -0700 From: "Kurt Buff" To: "Steve Bertrand" In-Reply-To: <486A65D0.4090103@ibctech.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48698AB9.7070802@cwis.biz> <20080630190821.1e0cc713@gom.home> <20080630231705.02193cae@verizon.net> <20080630203436.1cc7505d@gom.home> <4869BCB8.9060906@infracaninophile.co.uk> <486A65D0.4090103@ibctech.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, prad 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 18:15:16 -0000 On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >>> should we use 7 or think about going with 6.3? >>> >> >> I'd go with 7.x every time. It wipes the floor with 6.3 performance-wise >> and it is just as stable and bug-free as you'ld expect from FreeBSD. >> You've >> seen it works for you: there's no conceivable reason to downgrade. > > I agree with Matthew here. > > We have a few production 7 boxes now, some being re-deployed completely from > 4.x, and a couple that have come from 6.x. > > Although I don't have any documentation to show a performance increase, it > certainly hasn't gotten worse. (I went to 7 for testing for particular > reasons very early on). > > Any issues I've run into with 7 are just as prevalent in 6, so my vote would > be to follow the 7 train. (Note: the only issues that I have *personally* > run into so far are related to the 're' driver, which is out of context > here). > > IMHO, more eyes are on the 7 track, so if you have the choice to build a new > box, why 'downgrade' right off the bat (its not my intention to knock 6.x > BTW)? Eventually you will be forced to jump a major revision which in some > cases given user applications can be a bit of a headache. > > Stick with what is here and now, and leave 6.x as your upgrade path for your > current 6.x boxen until you can get those boxes upgraded too. > > BTW, to the OP.... I would suspect that your initial delay that causes the > 'Internet to be slow' is related to DNS somehow. Hit a webserver by its IP > and see if the problem goes away. > > Steve It's been suggested off-list that I put up a caching DNS server. I'm in the process of doing that. Initial page load delay, however, is a new phenomenon, cropping up after our move from the T1 to the DS3, so I was putting it down to increased use of cache - I'm certainly willing to be schooled on that, though. We'll see what happens with a caching DNS server. Thanks, Kurt