From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Jul 11 9:38:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 509EC14CAB for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 09:38:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgreco@aurora.sol.net) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.2/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id LAA83529; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 11:38:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199907111638.LAA83529@aurora.sol.net> Subject: Re: SMP comparisons In-Reply-To: from Julian Elischer at "Jul 9, 1999 7:45:49 pm" To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 11:38:43 -0500 (CDT) Cc: smp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The main motivating factor for those who have strong feeling in the matter > is fear. Either fear that -current will be destabilised (Well DUH, > Helloooo, It's -current...) or fear that Matt will be a divisive > influence. (go figure) "Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to _suffering_!" I hate to think that FreeBSD is trailing Linux, and the conclusion I come to is that things like this do not help the situation any. A requirement for a "stable" -CURRENT is complete crap... sure, stability should be a goal, but heck... any major work on the kernel has always resulted in instability. John Dyson's VM work left things shaky or awful for days or weeks at a time. The SMP integration had some serious issues. I think the CAM integration had some lesser ones. These were all valuable and necessary changes, and we tolerated these. If you want a stable -CURRENT, you should be running -STABLE. To core: FreeBSD has been a great OS for years. However, in order to continue, there must be a constant emphasis on evolving the technology and keeping it competitive. You've already lost the edge, at least in the SMP environment. Regaining the lead, or even a respectable position in the race, is going to be hard as it is... and much harder if this sort of paranoia continues. Please reconsider. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message