On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 07:35:53PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > Is there a server currently furnishing snapshots of the FreeBSD 4.11 security > branch? We have some servers running various 4.x versions that might not be > happy with 6.x due to memory requirements. They also might have slower file > access (The file system in FreeBSD 6.x still isn't as snappy as the one > in 4.x, though I hope this will change). So, we'd like to upgrade them to > a patch level that includes all recent security fixes. Are ISOs available?
FYI, it is only soft updates (really bufdaemon, through which all the I/O passes) that has performance problems under high load on 6.x compared to 4.x. Other mount modes perform quite a bit better (e.g. 30% faster for async write performance) than 4.x on the hardware I tested. http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/bsdcan/Filesystem%20Performance.pdf Kris P.S. Don't link to the above URL, I need to send it to Dan for publication on the BSDCan site, to which you should link instead.
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