Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:41:49 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006 Message-ID: <20051216184149.GC58262@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20051216113117.GA52639@mail.scottro.net> References: <20051216105005.68898.qmail@web36212.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20051216113117.GA52639@mail.scottro.net>
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 06:31:17AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > > A "me too" here for 5-Stable. > > > > I have a test PC, that was running 5-Stable using an > > additional swapfile to extend swap space. Never any > > problems at all with 5. > > > > After upgrading to 6-stable, I got regular hang-ups of > > the system (endless loop?) when swapspace is used > > extensively. Never happened with 5. I didn't move until 5 until 5.2+; it was a major move. There were lots of things to get-right. So maybe by 6.5, 6 will be granite stable. I've been using FBSD since 2.0.5, and while lots of solid features have been thoughtfully added, I just don't see that 6 buys that much more than 5.x. Maybe 7.x, tho... gary > > I have to add my vote for 6, as did someone else in an earlier post. > Like some others, I always found 5.x a bit slower than 4.x (No > benchmarks, completely subjective.) From the very beginning, I've found > 6.x to be stable and quickly moved some non-critical servers to it. > > After testing, we moved the more critical servers to it as well, and > have been quite happy withe results. > > Again, completely subjective, but from the beginning 6.x seemed faster > and more responsive than 5.x > Hmm. A series of benchmarks might prove some points. Back in Aug, 2001 I ran stress tests and other benchmarks to test *this* hardware. I pushed things to a loadave of > 70. Everything held. Maybe we should consider something like this. A series of hard stress tests as well as objective benchmarks as we go forward. It would give one some metrics... . gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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