I apologize if I'm off. But it seems you guys are talking about improving FBSD 4.5 networking performance.
I am currently using FreeBSD 4.4 Release. It works great, but there is that one problem Samba. I like Samba because it's functional. I don't know if it's Samba's fault, or if it's BSD's fault, but it behaves very erratically. Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's slow. When I used RH7.1, I installed Samba there as well. Samba worked fine, but also with the same behavior. But it was somewhat more reliable on RH than FreeBSD. I don't know if it's Samba itself or the OS, although I'm inclined to say it is Samba. If so, disregard this message. When I used RH/Samba, I put all of my MP3 music there. I'd listen to it on Winamp from my Win98 laptop. It worked fine... no skips. But when I put it on FreeBSD, the first minute or so is skip free, but as it passes that time limit it starts skipping... I mean, it blanks out as if it's readying the cache faster than it's being transfered over the network. My network is 10/100Mbits switched. The difference is now only the operating system. The box is a P3/450/128MB. It had RH, then it moved to FreeBSD. Now, I'm having that problem. Videos are even worse. I have some *.mov, and Real movie files, that I must first download, and then I watch. I can't watch it over the wire. This is just my two cents. Maybe 5 cents. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nevermind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Murray Stokely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 10:53 AM Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing > > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Nevermind wrote: > > > Hello, Murray Stokely! > > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 04:30:37PM -0800, you wrote: > > > > > There were some problems with the network performance of FreeBSD 4.4 > > > that were never discovered during the release candidates phase, so I'd > > > like to take a more pro-active role in getting users to test the > > > system in more demanding environments. > > > > > > A complete list of changes is available in the 4.5-PRERELEASE > > > release notes, available at : > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/ > > > > Could you, please, include in Relnotes that Java will be included in > > 4.5? > > I have't seen that support actually appear in ports/packages-land as yet, > but I greatly look forward to that happening. It would probably be > appropriate to wait until the details have been committed before > documenting it. > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project > [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
