On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:04:20 -0400 Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 8, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Matthias Buelow wrote: > >> Me too, but a lot has changed since 5.2.1 which at the time was > >> I think > >> was called a preview. The topic is 5.4R. What parts of the OS > >> do you > >> feel are not production ready as compared to 4.X ? > > > > I won't go into the details here; it has crashed and frozen on me > > on several occasions, it behaves badly when you do things it does > > not expect, like pulling a mounted USB stick, > > Yanking a mounted device out from under Unix has always been a no- > no. It would be nice if FreeBSD handled this better, but this > problem falls into the "operator error: don't do that" category. > > > it doesn't have working software RAID (Ok, vinum never worked > > properly but that's a different story), > > This is a valid point-- the migration to 5.x and gvinum has not > been pretty, and there are some gotchas lurking when people try to > deal with multi-terabyte RAID arrays, MBR vs GPT, and so forth. > > However, it's common to find half-decent hardware RAID > functionality on many x86 and AMD64 motherboards, and PCI-based > RAID cards are not very expensive. I'd rather use RAID in hardware > than software, myself, but if you think the current status of > software RAID in 5.x isn't production ready, that strikes me as an > understandable position to hold. > > > and it's performance is sub-par. > > 5.3 and earlier especially have struck me as being noticably > slower than 4.10 or so, but there have been significant > improvements since then, and 5.4 and 4.1x seem to be comparable. > To do better than a broad generalization, however, you really need > to pick some tasks and do real benchmarking to compare what is > really going on. Debugging and ect turned on was what did it on the ones before releng_5_3. There where also some nice commits right after releng_5_3. I noticed a nice jump when the last of debugging was turned off and then again after a few commits hit nearly right after releng_5_3. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
