9.0-RELEASE success

[Matt Connor]

On 19.01.2012 13:15, Nick Sayer wrote:
> I have a VPS at rootbsd.net, and have been running 8.2-RELEASE with a
> XENHVM kernel with a patch to fix the 'do something smart' panic in
> if_xn. I fetched the 9.0-RELEASE source tree and built a kernel to 
> try
> and it worked without any muss or fuss. I did the rest of the upgrade
> and it's working just fine, so far as I can tell.
>
> And there was much 
> rejoicing._______________________________________________

Same here at ssdnodes.com - we pulled the new source tree, rebuilt with 
our modified XENHVM and haven't had any issues so far.

We had many tweaks in /etc/sysctl.conf to improve throughput for the 
8.2-RELEASE, the 9.0-RELEASE systems still remained snappy after the 
tweaks were removed.

-Matt