From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 11 13:37:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from neo.skynet.be (neo.skynet.be [195.238.2.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463EC37B422 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (dialup461.brussels.skynet.be [195.238.20.205]) by neo.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF816C6B; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:36:58 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200009111738.KAA27347@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <200009111738.KAA27347@freeway.dcfinc.com> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:02:19 +0200 To: chad@DCFinc.com, dl@tyfon.net (Dan Larsson) From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: remote 3.5 -> 4.1-STABLE source upgrade (updated) Cc: fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:38 AM -0700 2000/9/11, Chad R. Larson wrote: > Not being a wise-ass (and not saying I can't be), but what features > in 4.1 not in 3.5 are driving your decision? For me, I understand that there have been some very significant changes in the virtual memory system and the buffer cache system, ones that I've been told are significant enough that will allow me to simply stop using the memory-based filesystem I have today for the primary USENET news peering server that we have, and to instead have the history database for Diablo 2.x stored on disk, where it can safely grow considerably larger than the ~384MB that I can afford to give to it under FreeBSD 3.x on that machine. Is that enough? -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message