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Date:      Sat, 04 Dec 1999 11:34:39 -0500
From:      Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?) 
Message-ID:  <Version.32.19991122105737.02b676a0@etinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <199911220720.XAA06603@dingo.cdrom.com>
References:  <Your message of "Sun, 21 Nov 1999 20:42:42 PST."             <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911212040040.48376-100000@hub.freebsd.org>

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At 11:20 PM 11/21/99 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>> > His point was not a claim about performance, rather he was bringing into
>> > question whether performance was improving with successive releases.
>> 
>> Sounded very much to me like he was just vaguely griping about how slow
>> and unstable newer versions of FreeBSD are compared to the good old days.
>> Dennis will be able to clarify this for us all when he posts his benchmark
>> specs.
>
>Dennis has been whining and griping about just about everything since 
>day one.  You can't realistically consider that sort of activity on his 
>part as any sort of metric at all.

There was a time that when someone reported a problem there was interest in
finding out what it might be. Now you mock the person reporting it. I guess
thats why everyone in the world is using linux. Its disheartening to
realize that things apparently wont be getting much better.

DB

Emerging Technologies, Inc.





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