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Date:      Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:09:54 -0700
From:      bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah)
To:        "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>
Cc:        bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Initial 4.7 RC1 report... 
Message-ID:  <200209201909.g8KJ9s3U021504@intruder.bmah.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209201449.g8KEnTiG004277@spoon.beta.com> 
References:  <200209201449.g8KEnTiG004277@spoon.beta.com>

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If memory serves me right, "Brian J. McGovern" wrote:
> I've gotten it installed, and spent about an hour playing last night. There
> is much more I want to do, which I'll probably get to over the weekend. 
> However, I figured I'd send out some preliminary data....
> 
> The install went pretty well. Without the package collection, picking the
> X installation options obviously break at that the point.

Hmmm.  Trust me, even if I gave you the package set, it wouldn't have 
helped.  :-(  We plan to have this fixed for 4.7-RC2.

> There is an issue with one of the dependencies for the Linux 7.1 emulator not
> building. I'll post a log once I verify it, but being a clean machine, it
> shouldn't have had problems.

You mean building the emulators/linux_base port?  Or rebuilding the 
linux.ko module?

> The ahc driver seems fairly stable, but seems to run slower than previous
> versions. Again, this requires deeper inspection before I can claim its
> anything real. I have some Seagate 10,000 RPM drives an LVD 80MB/s bus,
> and I've managed so far to _max_ the drives out at 3MB/s. Sustained was
> around 0.8-1.0 MB/s. However, these numbers come from performing 'typical'
> user tasks that anything trying to really isolate or stress the drives (or ev
> en
> be efficient).

Hmmm.  Justin Gibbs would probably like to see some of your numbers.

> Overall, however, it seems pretty solid for the time spent on it. Usually
> I find a couple of gotchas by now. The only thing I'd really like to see is
> Linux Redhat 7.3 being brought in to the emulator, so I can try to run a
> Lotus Dominio server on it :)

Ask on emulation@?  I haven't a clue what'd be involved (it almost 
certainly won't happen for 4.7-RELEASE, but you knew that already).

Thanks!

Bruce.



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