Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:18:24 -0500 From: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> To: "n.v.t n.v.t" <joefso@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd and performance Message-ID: <417665A0.7030300@gamersimpact.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY19-F10bK04QBh0Tz00005f0f@hotmail.com> References: <BAY19-F10bK04QBh0Tz00005f0f@hotmail.com>
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n.v.t n.v.t wrote: > Know you guys coming close to the 5.3 -stable release alot of users > are going to upgrade/switch, right, because this is what we have been > waiting for. What about the performance that 4.X had? Will the > performance be equal ? Will it be having better performance? Even on > low end machines? And especially sinds freebsd is becoming more and > more ready for desktop use, performance is a big issue on > desktops.(look at Gnu/Linux for example, which I have been using for a > very long time know, and all I can remember is that almost all of the > releases have scheduling/latency issues. When I was using 2.2/2.4/2.6 > All I have seen where low latency patches. What about freebsd? I speak for myself only and not re@, but no. 5.3 will not (yet) have the same performance 4.x had. So far 5.x has been about upgrading some of our major subsystems with more modernization, like a multithreading kernel, multithreaded kernel subsystems, eliminating Giant, etc. All of these things are not the tried-and-true of 4.x, they are new. Likewise they may not outperform 4.x, yet. I imagine once RELENG_5_3 is cut and -STABLE is adopted we will see more and more performance related patches. Eventually the 5.x branch will achieve the stability 4.x has to offer. > I have only been reading the bsd section at slashdot so I don't know > much about the progress you guys are making on the feature release. Is > there a offical news site for freebsd users? Like openbsd has > *deadly.org. www.freebsd.org. www.daemonnews.com I think carries some news. Otherwise, subscribe to current@. That's a pretty good way to see information about what is going on. > If those things are taking a while to be there, does fbsd have any > kernel patches like linux does to improve desktop performance? For > example like: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ Lord, I hope not. One of the reasons I dislike Linux (and there are many) is how much independent, unofficial, hard-to-find, incompatible, and distribution specific development goes on. If you have patches that would benefit the project, why not submit them? -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com
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