From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 22:24:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EA7916A400 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:24:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS1=4198ef9e75b8771621245a43f1d386997d4147c4=es.net==4198ef9e75b8771621245a43f1d386997d4147c4=356=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E92213C43E for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:24:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS1=4198ef9e75b8771621245a43f1d386997d4147c4=es.net==4198ef9e75b8771621245a43f1d386997d4147c4=356=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal4.es.net [198.124.252.66]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP (SSL) id JCM79548 for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:08:48 -0700 Received: from postal1.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by postal4.es.net (Postal Node 4) with ESMTP (SSL) id JCM85346 for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:08:46 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP (SSL) id JCM46244; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:08:44 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 3366745055; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:08:44 -0700 (PDT) To: "Kip Macy" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:02:21 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1180994924_1046P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:08:44 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20070604220844.3366745055@ptavv.es.net> Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: New driver coming soon. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:24:25 -0000 --==_Exmh_1180994924_1046P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 22:02:21 -0700 > From: "Kip Macy" > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > On 6/3/07, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > > 0n Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:19:44PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > > > > > FreeBSD customer base has been miniscule so not much has > > > been done to the code, maybe someday in my spare time :) > > > > "miniscule" ? That's scary to hear :( > > Until the last year, FreeBSD lagged in network performance, so trying > to push 10 GigE on it was not all that compelling. > > FreeBSD is fast becoming competitive again. I also see a number of > non-technical factors that may drive a resurgence of interest in > FreeBSD. It appears that it is very competitive and the vendors (or at least one vendor) is aware of it. When we were having issues with getting acceptable performance with Linux (no, I don't know which one), the Chelsio engineer suggested that we try FreeBSD-current to see if it might not do better. I must admit that I found this way cool and really appreciate all of the work you, Drew, Andre, jhb and others have done to make this happen. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1180994924_1046P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFGZI1skn3rs5h7N1ERAovQAJ9EDYj87k6yb3O+MDbv/t6gqv6g4gCdGl8b 8Kooyc63fCamrVrOGE7DBDE= =MnMA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1180994924_1046P--