Performance 4.x vs. 6.x (was: e: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon)

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Thu Oct 12 06:22:29 PDT 2006


Quoting Dan Lukes <dan at obluda.cz> (from Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:43:20 +0200):

[moved from security@ to performance@]

> 	The main problem is - 6.x is still not competitive replacement for
> 4.x. I'm NOT speaking about old unsupported hardware - I speaked about
> performance in some situation and believe in it's stability.

You can't be sure that a committer has the resources to setup an  
environment where he is able to reproduce your performance problems.  
You on the other hand have hands-on experience with the performance  
problem. If you are able to setup a -current system (because there are  
changes which may affect performance already, and it is the place  
where the nuw stuff will be developt) which exposes the bad behavior,  
you could make yourself familiar with the pmc framework  
(http://wiki.freebsd.org/PmcTools, I'm sure jkoshy@ will help if you  
have questions) and point out the bottlenecks on current@ and/or  
performance@ (something similar happened for MySQL, and now we have a  
webpage in the wiki about it). Without such reports, we can't handle  
the issue.

Further discussion about this should happen in performance@ or current at ...

Bye,
Alexander.

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