On Wednesday 05 December 2001 04:42 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     These changes are performance fixes, not security fixes.  I consider
>     them fairly significant performance fixes, but these bugs have been in
>     the TCP stack for literally a whole year without an outcry so I don't
>     see much justification for putting them into the security branch.
>
>                                       -Matt

I have no axe to grind on this at all.  It just appeared to me that a lot of 
folks must be in similar circumstances to mine. I have to keep 5 4.x servers 
up 24x7 and I don't normally need anything except really reliable service for 
mail, NFS, samba, etc, which the -RELEASE branch gives me in spades. Going to 
-stable is just a little to "avant-gard" for us!

However, having the kind of increase in network performance that you achieved 
would really be favorable for our network, as I have drives mounted via SMB 
over several thousand miles of network. There must be, I thought, others in 
the same situation that would love to have that stuff in 4.4-RELEASE, but I 
can understand if the consensus is otherwise.

 So, I will probably just put the patches into 4.4-RELEASE, and give it a try 
on my "test" box here at home before putting the changes into the 4.4's at 
work.

I appreciate the hard work. Thanks.
-- 
Jim Durham

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