[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD 6 feel

[pete wright]

On 11/7/05, Trish Lynch <trish at bsdunix.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Isaac Levy wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > After installing FreeBSD 6 on Friday on a box in the office, is it just
> me,
> > or does it feel *wicked fast*?
> >
>
> I've been using it for a while on my webserver, plus been in testing for
> voice/video builds at work and it works very well, and seems to use less
> CPU in the same operations, which means of course, some things will seem
> faster....



yea i'm feeling it to ;) I'm thinking it's the work the put into the UFS/VFS
to make it SMP safe (from the 6.0-BETA1 notes):

"These changes include streamlining direct device access in the kernel,
providing a multi-threaded SMP-safe UFS/VFS filesystem layer"

sounds fun.

-p



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