Ken Smith, atas nama Tim FreeBSD Release Engineering tadi malam (2007-02-27) mengumumkan tersedianya FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Cabang jalur rilis 7-STABLE ini memperkenalkan banyak fitur baru termasuk sejumlah perbaikan terhadap fungsionalitas dari generasi sebelumnya.
*highlights** *antara lain: Peningkatan performa secara dramatis dan skalabiliti untuk SMP dibuktikan dalam sejumlah adusoftware yang menunjukkan 350% peningkatan kinerja puncak (*peak performance*) pada beban normal dan 1500% saat beban tinggi, dibandingkan dengan kinerja generasi 6. Bila dibandingkan dengan performa terbaik dari kernel Linux (2.6.22 maupun 2.6.24), kinerja 'bayi ajaib' ini diklaim masih 15% lebih baik. Perlu ditekankan bahwa hasil yang diperoleh dari adusofware (*benchmarks*) bervariasi tergangung beban kerja spesifik terhadap sistem yang diuji. Sejumlah perubahan yang memberikan kontribusi terhadap perbaikan dimaksud antara lain: - The 1:1 libthr threading model is now the default. - Finer-grained IPC, networking, and scheduler locking. - A major focus on optimizing the SMP architecture that was put in place during the 5.x and 6.x branches. - Some benchmarks show linear scaling up to 8 CPUs. Many workloads see a significant performance improvement with multicore systems. - The ULE scheduler is vastly improved, providing improved performance and interactive response (the 4BSD scheduler is still the default for 7.0 but ULE may become the default for 7.1). - Experimental support for Sun's ZFS filesystem. - gjournal can be used to set up journaled filesystems, gvirstor can be used as a virtualized storage provider. - Read-only support for the XFS filesystem. - The unionfs filesystem has been fixed. - iSCSI initiator. - TSO and LRO support for some network drivers. - Experimental SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) support (FreeBSD's being the reference implementation). - Much improved wireless (802.11) support. - Network link aggregation/trunking (lagg(4)) imported from OpenBSD. - JIT compilation to turn BPF into native code, improving packet capture performance. - Much improved support for embedded system development for boards based on the ARM architecture. - jemalloc, a new and highly scalable user-level memory allocator. - freebsd-update(8) provides officially supported binary upgrades to new releases in addition to security fixes and errata patches. - X.Org 7.3, KDE 3.5.8, GNOME 2.20.2. - GNU C compiler 4.2.1. - BIND 9.4.2. comment from me : never wasting time talking about linux vs windows, use FreeBSD :p -- Bonie Mania The Land Of Joy And Happiness --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Balikpapan Information, Communication & Technology Community" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/balikpapan-ict?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
