On 29/03/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:48:07PM +0100, Chris wrote: > > > Well without a doubt 4.x is the fastest and most stable freebsd out of > > the 3. The comment earlier where it just runs and runs is a good way > > of describing it. > > 6.x is faster at filesystem performance and other tasks. > > > 5.x had a big performance hit and 6.x is noticeably faster but I have > > been experiencing weird lockups with 6.x and have reverted all but one > > of my servers back to 5.4 that were running 6.0 and they became stable > > again, we have one server running 6.1 prerelease which is more stable > > then 6.0 so I would rate 6.0 as a poor release, sorry but it only is > > stable under low load on every server I tried it on. > > Sorry to hear that, can you point me to the PRs you filed so I can > take a look? > > > Kris and others > > have you been testing 6.0 in server environments with things such as > > ddos attacks and thousands of concurrent connections, sustained heavy > > traffic ongoing for days etc, these type of things have caused 6.0 to > > just die on me. > > Yes, and so have companies like Yahoo! who are so pleased with 6.x > that they are deploying it company-wide. > > Kris > >
I didnt do a PR except one for a minor bug since there was nothing logged on it just died, I have kept one machine running 6.0 so I can try and resolve the problem and also will upgrade it to 6.1 on release to see if things are better, should I enable debugging options so it has better chance of logging something? Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
