"Brett Glass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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The release schedule for FreeBSD 6.0, on the FreeBSD Web site,
doesn't show a
projected date for the finished product. How close is it? We are
(believe it
or not) still running and building production servers with 4.11, and
would
love to move to 6.0 (at least for uniprocessor systems; we may wait
for 6.1
for SMP) if it is sufficiently stable and performs adequately.
We're running our own tests on RC1, but don't have a lot of spare
servers to
try it on. So, it's worth asking: How stable is RC1 turning out to
be on
uniprocessor platforms? On SMP platforms? How is network and disk
performance
relative to 4.11? (When we tested 5.x, both network and file system
performance were worse than that of 4.11.) With what known problems
is 6.0
likely to ship, and of these which are likely to impact uniprocessor
systems?
Are any "showstopper" bugs merely being worked around for release?
And, again,
when is the likely release date?
--Brett Glass
Welp, it's in the RC stage, and I've not seen any reports of massive
issues, so I imagine they'll move it through fairly quickly.
For what it's worth, on UP, my 386 (stop laughing) is showing twice
the inbound and outbound tcp throughput across multiple apps compared
to 4.11. Disk throughput is slightly higher, but nothing super
impressive. If 6.0 can show gains on a 386, that tells me there is
some actual merit to the changes.
Joshua Coombs
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