Re: FreeBSD 5.0 woes

2003-01-29 Thread Juless Grosse
Thank you all for your answers. Indeed I read the EAG, but didn't think that the performance penalty was so huge. Mabe this should be more emphasized? I'll try 4.7, as per all your suggestions, but the only remaining problem is how to deal with my huge (~100g) ext3 HD. I probably have around 26

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 woes

2003-01-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:38:10PM -0500, Juless Grosse wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 5.0 this weekend at home and > removed it five hours laters. Two problems made this > use of this OS prohibitive for me, although I was > hoping to stop using Debian and start using FreeBSD. Stick to the 4.x bran

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 woes

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Moran
Juless Grosse wrote: I installed FreeBSD 5.0 this weekend at home and removed it five hours laters. Two problems made this use of this OS prohibitive for me, although I was hoping to stop using Debian and start using FreeBSD. 1) Awful performance on the sound subsystem under heavy load. If I co

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 woes

2003-01-28 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Juless Grosse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Can anybody here confirm if these are common problems, > and if there are any settings I might tune for their > removal? I really wish I could change to FreeBSD. The performance issue is easy, and in the early adopter's guide, w

FreeBSD 5.0 woes

2003-01-28 Thread Juless Grosse
I installed FreeBSD 5.0 this weekend at home and removed it five hours laters. Two problems made this use of this OS prohibitive for me, although I was hoping to stop using Debian and start using FreeBSD. 1) Awful performance on the sound subsystem under heavy load. If I copy large files, or sta