Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-27 Thread Martin Cracauer
Wasn't Dragonfly split off to do exactly what some troll here wanted? Use FreeBSD-4.x as a base for a *BSD. I would be curious to know whether Dragonfly-current or whatever they name it fix the performance problems assumed (but not proven). Or whether Dragonfly went into difficulties with thread

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-17 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:00:54 +0100): On 16/10/06, Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: He might have got further by volunteering to create and supply profiles for those specific workloads that were faster in 4.x than 6.x on UP machinery etc... i.e. hel

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-16 Thread Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do I need to start a project? Matt Dillon is > already doing it. > > One thing that Matt has proved is that IQ isn't > cumulative. Because hes doing on his own what an > entire team of FreeBSD "engineers" can't

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-16 Thread RoBeRT B
If you see/grep Danial Thom in FreeBSD related, consider this: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88q1/13785.8.html http://amasci.com/weird/flamer.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_war My personal fav' is the first link... How do we know that 'DT' even exists? Hmmm. DT - S, go awa

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-16 Thread Danial Thom
--- Mark Linimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-16 Thread Danial Thom
I'm not quote sure what you're trying to say, becuase clearly your not using a SATA controller, so you can't say the drives work in freebsd 4.x. And I only used Areca because its what I had lying around. I didn't try to make any specific analysis, or say that SATA was faster than scsi, only that th

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-16 Thread Chris
On 16/10/06, Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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.

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

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

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread NOC Meganet
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 some nasty HW ... > > Ah, hardware bigotry.  Your colors are showing.

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread NOC Meganet
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 2, then you only > use one of the cores. The concept that you

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Horwath
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 4.x to get maximum > performance. You are so completely wron

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread Danial Thom
--- Mike Horwath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:13:24AM -0300, NOC > Prowip wrote: > > 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

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread Danial Thom
--- NOC Prowip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Linux 2.6 is not suitable for uniprocessor, > nor > > is FreeBSD 6. The difference is that Linux > scales > > with MP, and FreeBSD doesn't. So the case to > keep > > 4.x as an option is an easy one to make. > > > > > Hi, I am hooking in here wit

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread Danial Thom
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 2, then you only use one of the cores. The concept that you have to fire up both of them just because they're there is just

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Horwath
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 06:22:23PM +0200, Robert Joosten wrote: > Hi, > > > but I tell you that a 10K Raptor is faster then a 15K 320Mb SCSI when > > compiling world or untarring large files. > > Well, put that '10K Raptor' in a loaded fileserver and compare it > with a SCSI thing. Most scsi imp

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Horwath
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 01:13:27PM -0300, NOC Prowip wrote: > On Saturday 14 October 2006 12:38, Mike Horwath wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:13:24AM -0300, NOC Prowip wrote: > > > Hi, I am hooking in here without any intention to fire things up but > > > isn 't this discussion certainly usel

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, > but I tell you that a 10K Raptor is faster then a 15K 320Mb SCSI when > compiling world or untarring large files. Well, put that '10K Raptor' in a loaded fileserver and compare it with a SCSI thing. Most scsi implementations I know are much more scalable when there's a realworld load suc

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread NOC Prowip
On Saturday 14 October 2006 12:38, Mike Horwath wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:13:24AM -0300, NOC Prowip wrote: > > 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 t

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Horwath
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:13:24AM -0300, NOC Prowip wrote: > 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. Wow, I hope not. Unles

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread NOC Prowip
> Linux 2.6 is not suitable for uniprocessor, nor > is FreeBSD 6. The difference is that Linux scales > with MP, and FreeBSD doesn't. So the case to keep > 4.x as an option is an easy one to make. > Hi, I am hooking in here without any intention to fire things up but isn 't this discussion cert

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-14 Thread Danial Thom
Unfortunately, the "certain tasks" are squid, apache and networking applications, which are the only viable reasons to use the OS commercially. I've yet to hear 1 (thats *one*) commercial vendor who built a product on 4.x claim to move to 5 or 6 because of its superior performance. The only ones I

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 01:34:36PM -0700, Danial Thom wrote: > Yeah, bury your head in the sand as always. > > Its been proven over and over. Robert Watson has > admitted many times that 6.x is not as fast as > 4.x uniprocessor FOR CERTAIN TASKS. Your (misquoted) claim is demonstrably false in

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-13 Thread Danial Thom
Yeah, bury your head in the sand as always. Its been proven over and over. Robert Watson has admitted many times that 6.x is not as fast as 4.x uniprocessor, but you guys still continue to claim otherwise. Clowns following clowns to the land of nowhere. Its virtually impossible to build a threa

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: 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