Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Linimon wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:01:08PM -0400, Michael Butler wrote: For everyone's benefit then, please feel free to submit your patches along with your technical analysis. I think his best bet is a fork, instead. Then he can tell all the people that volunteer to work on _his_

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:01:08PM -0400, Michael Butler wrote: > For everyone's benefit then, please feel free to submit your patches > along with your technical analysis. I think his best bet is a fork, instead. Then he can tell all the people that volunteer to work on _his_ project exactly wha

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

2006-10-15 Thread Scott Long
Danial Thom wrote: --- Mark Linimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:57:32AM -0700, Danial Thom wrote: Stating facts is not trolling. true, but ... The fact that you may not want to hear it is your own problem [...] You can't keep promoting this junk they're putting

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-15 Thread Michael Butler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danial Thom wrote: > There isn't one person on that team that knows how to fix what's > wrong .. For everyone's benefit then, please feel free to submit your patches along with your technical analysis, Michael -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-15 Thread NOC Prowip
On Sunday 15 October 2006 11:29, Danial Thom wrote: > Unfortunately, FreeBSD 6.x with 4 processors > can't beat 4.x with one, which is the entire > point of this thread. well well even if you were that clever guy you pretend to be you're not entitled to offend people with stupid, idiot, clown an

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

2006-10-15 Thread Danial Thom
--- Mark Linimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:57:32AM -0700, > Danial Thom wrote: > > Stating facts is not trolling. > > true, but ... > > > The fact that you may not want to hear it is > your own problem [...] > > You can't keep promoting this junk they're > putting

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

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:57:32AM -0700, Danial Thom wrote: > Stating facts is not trolling. true, but ... > The fact that you may not want to hear it is your own problem [...] > You can't keep promoting this junk they're putting out. You can't just > keep kicking the Matt Dillons out of the cam

4.X vs 5.X && Danial Thom === Waste of Time

2006-10-15 Thread RoBeRT B
Check out: http://www.google.com/search?q=danial_thom&btnG=Google+Search 1) He starts *wars* in FreeBSD, DragonFly and Linux. 2) His total contribution to Open Source is zero. If these discussions continue, valuable threads are lost with the bantering that is going on here. Obviously he enjoy

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

2006-10-15 Thread Mike Horwath
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:57:32AM -0700, Danial Thom wrote: > Hi Kip, > > Where you a troll when you outlined how your port > of FreeBSD 6 to Solaris was so bad that it was > virtually unusable? Stating facts is not > trolling. And you crossposted this to performance...why? Kip might be right,

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-15 Thread Mike Horwath
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:03:04AM -0700, Danial Thom wrote: > We come from Earth; we're just more informed. The > WD740ADFD's do NOT work on Freebsd 4.x. I'm sure > you are talking about the WD740GD. I DID say the > NEW ones. They are a lot faster than the GDs. I > used them with FreeBSD 4.x with

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

2006-10-15 Thread Danial Thom
Hi Kip, Where you a troll when you outlined how your port of FreeBSD 6 to Solaris was so bad that it was virtually unusable? Stating facts is not trolling. The fact that you may not want to hear it is your own problem. I'm fairly certain that you know that every single thing I'm saying is true, bu

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-15 Thread Mike Horwath
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:56:09AM -0700, Jason Stone wrote: > for my home firewall/router, I used to use a general-purpose machine > in a full-sized atx case, with lots of fans, and a 400W power > supply. I switched to a soekris box, which is completely tiny, > completely silent, and draws about

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-15 Thread Mike Horwath
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 12:45:42AM -0300, NOC Meganet wrote: > On Saturday 14 October 2006 15:05, Mike Horwath wrote: > > > I would say this preference is mostly set by beeing afraid of > > > migration (lots of things can come up when migrating a production > > > server) or by lack of money to buy

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-15 Thread Danial Thom
--- Mike Horwath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 01:30:02PM -0700, > Danial Thom wrote: > > You should try the new 10K WD drives (the > ones that just came > > out). They kick butt. Unfortunately, I'd > have to use FreeBSD 6 to > > use them, so I have to stick with SCSI on

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-15 Thread Danial Thom
--- NOC Meganet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 14 October 2006 17:13, Danial Thom > wrote: > > The fact that a processor has 2 cores doesn't > > mean you have to use them, just like a MB > with 2 > > sockets doesn't need both to be used. If the > OS > > is faster with 1 processor than

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-15 Thread Jason Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am hooking in here without any intention to fire things up but isn 't this discussion certainly useless? Not only 4.11 is gone but also i386 is practically marked to die out as well as UP systems are. All platforms are going to be 64bits and m