Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:06:23 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Juless Grosse <jlsgrosse@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 woes Message-ID: <3E36FEDF.10407@potentialtech.com> References: <20030128213810.51641.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com>
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Juless Grosse wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 5.0 this weekend at home and > removed it five hours laters. Two problems made this > use of this OS prohibitive for me, although I was > hoping to stop using Debian and start using FreeBSD. > > 1) Awful performance on the sound subsystem under > heavy load. If I copy large files, or start the > X-Window while playing an MP3, it would simply stop > playing while the disk is being accessed. > > 2) (the most important) I have a second HD with all my > data in ext3. Although I could remove the journal > and use it as a ext2, it simply didn't work as > expected and eventually it became corrupted and the > ext2utils could'nt repair it. When I installed Debian > again, it spent more then 40 min fsck the disk. > > 3) Really degraded performance on X-Window and Galeon. > their performance under Debian (xfree 4.1) is MUCH > more smoother and even perceivably faster! > > Can anybody here confirm if these are common problems, > and if there are any settings I might tune for their > removal? I really wish I could change to FreeBSD. Did you read the Early Adopters Guide? FreeBSD 5.0 is still pretty new. If you're interested in a tried & true version of FreeBSD, d/l and install 4.7. The 4.x branch is still under active development and there will be more releases along the 4.x line until the 5.x line works out enough of the problems for it to be as reliable as 4.x has become. Most of the problems I've seen people reporting about 5.x fall into the performance category. I think there's still a lot of debugging code in 5.0, and that slows performance a lot. I've noticed some performance issues on my 5.0 test box, although none have been as severe as you describe. If you feel like contributing, the freebsd-current mailing list might be very interested in your performance report. They've been working pretty hard to get 5.0 running well, and feedback is always helpful. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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