From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 15:44:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E36B37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-da-1.dns-solutions.net (unknown [69.12.117.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A8F243F75 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:44:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matthew@starbreaker.net) Received: (qmail 89873 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2003 22:44:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO host160.209-113-232.oem.net) (matthew@starbreaker.net@209.113.232.160) by mail-da-1.dns-solutions.net - 209.113.232.160 with SMTP; 21 Jul 2003 22:44:16 -0000 From: Matthew Graybosch Organization: starbreaker.net To: David Rio Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:44:37 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030721221840.GB58118@perpels.com> In-Reply-To: <20030721221840.GB58118@perpels.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307211844.37462.matthew@starbreaker.net> cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: RELENG_5 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: matthew@starbreaker.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:44:51 -0000 On Monday 21 July 2003 06:18 pm, David Rio wrote: > If I am not wrong with this, what will be the reason to install 5.1 > instead 4.8? I mean, 5.1 has more features but a worst performace > that 4.8. On the other hand, there is no -STABLE branch of 5.1 so > the only way to keep you system up to date is follow the -CURRENT > branch which is a little agresive in my case. Did you tune your installation? I found that after enabling SSE in my kernel and modifying /boot/loader.conf to enable DMA on IDE and ATAPI devices that 5.1 runs like a bat out of Hell. Only when playing DVDs with mplayer do I get slowdown, and it's my fault for using an ancient video card. There isn't a -STABLE branch for 5.1 yet because the maintainers don't think 5.1 is ready for it. Be patient. -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net "I am become root, shatterer of kernels." PS: If you want, I'll send copies of my kernel config and /boot/loader.conf.