Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:33:26 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Joao Carlos <jcarlos@bahianet.com.br>, hitech@bahianet.com.br, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of mbuf clusters Message-ID: <199909202133.OAA05349@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:04:50 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909201353360.5712-100000@dt014nb6.san.rr.com>
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>> If all of core insisted that Joe User had to know about internals >> to use FreeBSD as a server, FreeBSD would be little more than a hobbyist >> OS, > > But -core has stated explicitly that freebsd IS a hobbyist OS. I >believe Jordan's exact words were that, "FreeBSD is a vanity OS by and for >the developers." The fact that it's also useful for doing productive >things is purely an accident, resulting from the fact that the hobbyists >involved like to spend their time doing productive things. I don't recall Jordan ever saying that, and in any case I certainly don't think that way. For at least the past 3-4 years FreeBSD has absolutely been targeted for production server use. I guess when we started out we weren't that serious, but we sure are now. Obviously the system should never crash. The mbuf problem is a difficult one to solve and it may be awhile before we have a solution. In the meantime people who need to do high volume things will need to learn how to tune their machines to avoid problems. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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