Re: Freebsd and performance
From: Ryan Sommers (ryans_at_gamersimpact.com)
Date: 10/20/04
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:18:24 -0500 To: "n.v.t n.v.t" <joefso@hotmail.com>
n.v.t n.v.t wrote:
> Know you guys coming close to the 5.3 -stable release alot of users
> are going to upgrade/switch, right, because this is what we have been
> waiting for. What about the performance that 4.X had? Will the
> performance be equal ? Will it be having better performance? Even on
> low end machines? And especially sinds freebsd is becoming more and
> more ready for desktop use, performance is a big issue on
> desktops.(look at Gnu/Linux for example, which I have been using for a
> very long time know, and all I can remember is that almost all of the
> releases have scheduling/latency issues. When I was using 2.2/2.4/2.6
> All I have seen where low latency patches. What about freebsd?
I speak for myself only and not re@, but no. 5.3 will not (yet) have the
same performance 4.x had. So far 5.x has been about upgrading some of
our major subsystems with more modernization, like a multithreading
kernel, multithreaded kernel subsystems, eliminating Giant, etc. All of
these things are not the tried-and-true of 4.x, they are new. Likewise
they may not outperform 4.x, yet. I imagine once RELENG_5_3 is cut and
-STABLE is adopted we will see more and more performance related
patches. Eventually the 5.x branch will achieve the stability 4.x has to
offer.
> I have only been reading the bsd section at slashdot so I don't know
> much about the progress you guys are making on the feature release. Is
> there a offical news site for freebsd users? Like openbsd has
> *deadly.org.
www.freebsd.org. www.daemonnews.com I think carries some news.
Otherwise, subscribe to current@. That's a pretty good way to see
information about what is going on.
> If those things are taking a while to be there, does fbsd have any
> kernel patches like linux does to improve desktop performance? For
> example like: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/
Lord, I hope not. One of the reasons I dislike Linux (and there are
many) is how much independent, unofficial, hard-to-find, incompatible,
and distribution specific development goes on. If you have patches that
would benefit the project, why not submit them?
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