What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

[Bigelow, Andrea L.]

Can anyone speak to performance improvement if the debug flags are removed? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris at obsecurity.org] 
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:04 AM
To: TM4525 at aol.com
Cc: questions at freebsd.org; BigelowA at SEC.GOV
Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:55:37AM -0400, TM4525 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/6/04 6:47:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> kris at obsecurity.org writes:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:42:24PM -0400, Bigelow, Andrea L. wrote:
> > Where's the documentation? I'd like to see this for myself.  
> 
> There is none, because Mr./Ms. TM4525 is making up his/her "facts" to 
> suit their assertion.  The last time this claim was made it was 
> refuted and TM4525 promised to go away and check 5.3 performance.
> 
> Kris
> ----------------------------------
> 
> Actually, Kris, it wasn't "refuted", you said that the exceptionally 
> poor performance was "expected" until 5.3 was released, and implied 
> that anyone who expected good performance was making a fool of themselves.
> 
> Search google groups for "freebsd 5.2 performance woes" and sort by 
> date to see my test details and subsequent comments by Kris and the 
> other FreeBSD Spin Doctors.
> 
> My tests are very controlled, and my "assertion" is a result of 
> exceptionally poor performance in the test. And no-one "refuted" my 
> results. More like jockeying to save face.
> 
> Nor did I "promise to go away". I promised to test 5.3 and post the 
> results.

We're waiting..5.3 is in beta and ready for your tests.  Other benchmarks
show very good results compared to 4.x.

Kris