Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:00:32 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> Cc: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Why are so many people using 4.x? Message-ID: <20060329200032.GA79386@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0603291148y5065754ag178e4dc7c9ee7986@mail.gmail.com> References: <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com> <4429A37D.2020500@pixelhammer.com> <20060328213953.GA2682@xor.obsecurity.org> <4429B479.7000408@pixelhammer.com> <20060328224340.GA4063@xor.obsecurity.org> <442ACFB2.70108@pixelhammer.com> <20060329183051.GA78889@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060329190517.GA79103@xor.obsecurity.org> <3aaaa3a0603291148y5065754ag178e4dc7c9ee7986@mail.gmail.com>
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--nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:48:07PM +0100, Chris wrote: > Well without a doubt 4.x is the fastest and most stable freebsd out of > the 3. The comment earlier where it just runs and runs is a good way > of describing it. 6.x is faster at filesystem performance and other tasks. > 5.x had a big performance hit and 6.x is noticeably faster but I have > been experiencing weird lockups with 6.x and have reverted all but one > of my servers back to 5.4 that were running 6.0 and they became stable > again, we have one server running 6.1 prerelease which is more stable > then 6.0 so I would rate 6.0 as a poor release, sorry but it only is > stable under low load on every server I tried it on.=20 Sorry to hear that, can you point me to the PRs you filed so I can take a look? > Kris and others > have you been testing 6.0 in server environments with things such as > ddos attacks and thousands of concurrent connections, sustained heavy > traffic ongoing for days etc, these type of things have caused 6.0 to > just die on me. Yes, and so have companies like Yahoo! who are so pleased with 6.x that they are deploying it company-wide. Kris --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEKudfWry0BWjoQKURAuRnAKCqX7HetXwpQlvwxxL5jwFfbeU7tQCgmgZF SD73M5YnTcMwx+2Q6ukvxwg= =h0W+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--
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