Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:17:31PM -0500, Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: > Where are the numbers for this? Where is the proof? Are you using > CARP and PF in the 4.x kernel? Are you using UNIX sockets in 4.x? > > The fact that your claims haven't been substantiated leads me to > believe you're not

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-12 Thread Derrick T. Woolworth
Where are the numbers for this? Where is the proof? Are you using CARP and PF in the 4.x kernel? Are you using UNIX sockets in 4.x? The fact that your claims haven't been substantiated leads me to believe you're not really trying to solve any problems. D On 10/12/06, Danial Thom <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-12 Thread Danial Thom
No one said freebsd 6.0 is useless, but I promise you that 4.x could do any "router" job better than 6.0. And everyone on the FreeBSD team knows it. The point is not the freebsd 5+ can't do a job; its that it doesn't do a job better than 4.x. DT --- "Derrick T. Woolworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x (was: e: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon)

2006-10-12 Thread Danial Thom
--- Dan Lukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > The right thing to do is to port the SATA > support > > and new NIC support back to 4.x and support > both. > > 4.x is far superior on a Uniprocessor system > and > > FreeBSD-5+ may be an entire re-write away > from > > ever being

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Jerry Bell wrote: > > I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. > > [...] > > changed the clock to TSC > > As far as I know, it is unsafe to use TSC on SMP systems. > > Or did that change recently?

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-12 Thread Derrick T. Woolworth
What a load... Here's a report... I have over 800 nodes installed in the field with FreeBSD 6.0 running as routers on silly little 1.3Ghz machines with 256MB of RAM. They run Apache/PHP/wSSL enabled, MySQL, dual-firewall with custom NetGraph module for Wireless MAC authentication. The company

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x (was: e: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon)

2006-10-12 Thread Kip Macy
Please do not feed the trolls. -Kip On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Danial Thom wrote: > > > --- Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Quoting Dan Lukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 12 > > Oct 2006 09:43:20 +0200): > > > > [moved from security@ to [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-12 Thread Tamouh H.
> > Anyway, people should stop complaining, and start offering up > hardware, net connections, and man power to support a cvs > repo/packages/etc for the 4.x tree if they want it. That's > what people do, and that's the beauty of open source. > > > Eric > I agree, however, there appears

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x (was: e: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon)

2006-10-12 Thread Vlad GALU
On 10/12/06, Dan Lukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Danial Thom wrote: > The right thing to do is to port the SATA support > and new NIC support back to 4.x and support both. > 4.x is far superior on a Uniprocessor system and > FreeBSD-5+ may be an entire re-write away from > ever being any good at

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-12 Thread Eric Anderson
On 10/12/06 09:19, Danial Thom wrote: --- Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting Dan Lukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:43:20 +0200): [moved from security@ to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The main problem is - 6.x is still not competitive replacement for 4.x.

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x (was: e: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon)

2006-10-12 Thread Danial Thom
--- Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Dan Lukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 12 > Oct 2006 09:43:20 +0200): > > [moved from security@ to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > The main problem is - 6.x is still not > competitive replacement for > > 4.x. I'm NOT speaking about old

Performance 4.x vs. 6.x (was: e: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon)

2006-10-12 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Dan Lukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:43:20 +0200): [moved from security@ to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The main problem is - 6.x is still not competitive replacement for 4.x. I'm NOT speaking about old unsupported hardware - I speaked about performance in some situatio

Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE

2006-10-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jerry Bell wrote: > I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram. > [...] > changed the clock to TSC As far as I know, it is unsafe to use TSC on SMP systems. Or did that change recently? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz