Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

[Dominic Marks]

Hi,

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:10:49PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 May 2001, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> And stuck in the middle is a growing number of people who are seeing a
> noticeable slowdown with 4.3, and will start telling their friends that
> FreeBSD is slow.
> 
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack

I'd be slightly more concerned about the safety out of the data from a clean
installation. In my opinion its more important to be safe out of the box and
leave performance and optimization as a task for a sysadmin that has enough
clue to do such things. I don't mean to say that performance is not an issue
or not important, this is of course incorrect.

Safe by default with speed available to those who care to find out how. I
think that the alternative is some what irresponsible. Its not as if 4.3 is
actually slower when properly setup, its the same reasoning as not using
async mounts on hard discs by default.

Just my thoughts, Have a nice day.

[
 I've cc'ed -chat in the hope of moving the conversation onto that
 list as requested. If anyone responds please drop -hackers. Thanks
]

-- 
Dominic Marks

PGP signature