v6 speed compared to previous versions

[Jeff Mohler]

Fair to say that those tools should be recompiled on a 6 system to
ensure full update-ness?

On 11/13/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:39:16AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> > When I switched to 6.0, then 6.1, it was noticed by most of my clients
> > that my php/mysql/apache system slowed down a fair bit compared to previous
> > version (5.XX).
> >
> > I always like to be on the bleeding edge of FreeBSD, but the performance
> > hit is being commented about by my (few) mysql/php clients.
> >
> > I've seen the "trolls" of past about speed and previous versions, and I
> > would really be interested to hear the actual truth about 6.XX speed.
> > It is my understanding that 6.XX is more optimized for multi-processors,
> > and that for a single processor, 5.XX (or even 4.XX) outperforms 6.XX.
> >
> > Would someone please outline the choices/drawbacks/concerns of even
> > considering going back a series?
>
> 6.x is 5.x with performance bottlenecks fixed.  This applies both to
> UP and SMP systems.  Therefore it's pretty surprising that you're
> seeing a slowdown between 5.x and 6.x, so you should try to look into
> exactly why your system seems to be running slower.  Perhaps it's just
> a simple misconfiguration, or related to some other change you made at
> the same time as you updated.
>
> Kris
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