Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:53:50 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Raymond Kohler <raymond.j.kohler@lmco.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions about the state of current Message-ID: <3DBEF55E.A0F9ED1B@mindspring.com> References: <2570443.1035916854787.JavaMail.wshttp@emss03g01.ems.lmco.com>
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Raymond Kohler wrote: > I'm now a stable user, and I'm considering moving to current to get a jump > on upgrading and help with the testing effort. I have some questions about > its performance: > > 1) How is the speed compared to stable? I remember it being just too slow > some months ago and was wondering how it was improving. Most of the speed difference is WITNESS, INVARIANTS, and other debugging code that's turned on by default in the config files for -current. You can turn most of it off. That said, -current is slower than -stable in a number of places, so expect some slowdown, if you are running non-concurrent code. > 2) Are the random hangs in X fixed yet? I can put up with a few issues > (it is current, after all), but that's just too much to bear. If you have been following chthe -current mailing list, you will know that Bruce provided a patch last week which people are reporiting has fixed the problem. > 3) Are there any Very Important Packages (mozilla, kde, &c) that > won't build or refuse to work right? Gnome is having a problem, but given the problem it's having, it will likely have the same problem on Solaris and several other OS's (everywhere except on Linux). It's because they are defining thread routine replacement stubs when it's not necessary on the platforms they are doing it on. The fix will probably have to come from the gnome community, but you can work around it by getting rid of the linkage against libXThrStub.so. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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