Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:13:14 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General consensus about upgrading from 5.x to 6.x? Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.0.20051020090138.07c51ae0@64.7.153.2> In-Reply-To: <435794C7.4070700@veldy.net> References: <435794C7.4070700@veldy.net>
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At 08:59 AM 20/10/2005, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>I run a very small home office network and domain off of my DSL.
>Currently, I have a FreeBSD 5.4p8 firewall (pf) running. I am
>really not having any issues, but sometimes the machines gets a bit
>stodgy for no solid reason [load shouldn't be that high]. I have
>considered the jump to 6.0
6.0 is not really like the previous dot zero releases. 6.0 is more
akin of going from 3.1 to 3.2 as opposed to 4.x to 5.0. It really is
quite stable
>How well does the new ULE scheduler (presumably no preemption) play
>on servers in 6.0?
Stick with the regular scheduler. ULE is supposed to be fixed, but YMMV
---Mike
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