On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:30:10 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i want to go to FreeBSD instead of NetBSD on my i386 machines because of > all "new features" :( introduced in NetBSD after 1.5 mostly crashing > softdeps, strange memory/unified disk cache management (large writing to > file almost freezes everything) etc. etc. > > i installed FreeBSD once to do quick performance tests, and at least in > disk I/O and fair scheduling it's MUCH better (tested 4.10 and 5.1). > > my questions: > > 1) what is Buf and Cache in top exactly? why buf on 96MB machine gets to > near 20MB and never goes down? it's almost 1/4 of memory size. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html (point #2) > 2) can i compile kernel with -march=pentium,pentium[234] -O2 > optimization? in NetBSD 2.0 doing -march=pentium produces kernel that > doesn't boot at all, just resets. the following appears in /etc/make.conf: "CFLAGS controls the compiler settings used when compiling C code. Note that optimization settings above -O (-O2, ...) are not recommended or supported for compiling the world or the kernel" i'm working with 4.10 and have the following line in my /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE=i686 are either of these were what you were looking for? > 3) how can i disable compiling, using etc.. all that LKM (KLD) stuff? > > i really prefer one static kernel. > > 4) is IPv6 working well? (i mean no crashes etc...) i will get real IPv6 > zone allocation soon and want to use it. > > 5) what is used in FreeBSD for traffic management. NetBSD has altq - > please just give me a name i will RTFM. > > 6) how to turn using serial port as console on i386? my home machine is > headless, i'm using X terminals to access it. is this what you're looking for? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html if you've got firewire, you may also want to look at man dcons. > 7) does FreeBSD support 2 CPUs on i386? yes, though i have no experience with it. you may care to peruse the handbook (see link above) or check the freebsd-questions mailing list archives http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ or google > sorry if too much questions at once, i would like to move my home machine > to FreeBSD tomorrow, test it at real for a month and then (if it will be > better than NetBSD for my needs) replace other machines. > > should i go to 4.10 or better 5.2.1? stability is really important to me. i would recommend 4.10. though the 5.x series is solid, it is undergoing heavy development. 5.x won't be releasing a 'stable' version until sometime later this year. > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"