What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

[Jonathan T. Sage]

Bigelow, Andrea L. wrote:
> Where's the documentation? I'd like to see this for myself.  
> 
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> From: TM4525 at aol.com [mailto:TM4525 at aol.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 4:34 PM
> To: jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org
> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
> 
> Considering that its been well documented and admitted that 5.x is 1/3 the
> speed of 4.x at this point,  do you really think they've migrated production
> boxes?


Most likely this is in reference to a few lines in /usr/src/UPDATING, 
stating that all of the debug features are turned on by default in 5.x < 
5.3, making it much slower.  This is less than true if those options are 
turned off.

~j



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