Freebsd and performance
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Oct 20 09:59:32 PDT 2004
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:15:57AM +0000, 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?
Benchmarks I've seen show 5.3 performing better than 4.x in many
workloads. Try it yourself and see if you like it :)
> 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 :-)
bsdnews.com is also good; slashdot.org is probably the worst possible
news source you could be reading :-)
> What about the compile flags freebsd RC is using compared to 5.3 -stable
> will there be a lot of changes?
No changes.
> What about gnome packages? Will 2.8 make it in 5.3 stable (iso)?
No, the ports tree is already frozen and packages are built.
> 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/
Not that I'm aware of, we like to commit patches that improve
performance instead of leaving them out :-)
Kris
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