Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-29 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Stephen Clark wrote: We have a network appliance that is currently based on 4.9. We are in the process of releasing a new version based on 6.1 stable. In our testing using nttcp thru the appliance we see insignifant difference in thruput between the 2 versions in a contro

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Gary Palmer
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 08:05:15AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: > Hello List, > > We have a network appliance that is currently based on 4.9. We are in > the process of releasing > a new version based on 6.1 stable. > > In our testing using nttcp thru the appliance we see insignifant > differenc

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread security
Stephen Clark wrote: > Hello List, > > We have a network appliance that is currently based on 4.9. We are in > the process of releasing > a new version based on 6.1 stable. > > In our testing using nttcp thru the appliance we see insignifant > difference in thruput between the 2 > versions in a con

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 03:17:40PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 14:51 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > > Why are you releasing a new product on an already unsupported version? > > 6.2 is the version you really need to be moving to not 6.1. > > FreeBSD 6.1 is not unsupported

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
Stephen Clark wrote: > The appliance is basically a firewall/nat/vpn device. We started on 6.1 > last year and it has > taken us a while to get things tested, plus I don't like to use a brand > new release. If we go to > a later release it means we have to do complete regression testing, etc

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 25 May 2007 15:05, Stephen Clark wrote: > We have a person that is testing the both system inhouse surfing out > over the internet on our T1 link and he complains that he is consistently seeing the 6.1 version being much slower than the > 4.9 version (on the same hardware). FreeBSD cann

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Stephen Clark
Dominic Marks wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Hello List, We have a network appliance that is currently based on 4.9. We are in the process of releasing a new version based on 6.1 stable. You are going to get asked this, so I'll ask first. Whats the reason behind not running a more rece

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Gavin Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FreeBSD 6.1 is not unsupported - far from it. When 6.1 was released, it was designated as an "Extended support" branch, and is currently scheduled to be supported (from a security point of view) after support for 6.2 is drop

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Stephen Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One of our testers has the same setup but is using winblows/ie in place of freebsd+firefox and subjectively says the 6.1 system is slower than the 4.9 system. I was just wandering if there were any tunables that might cause

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Stephen Clark wrote: [..] > >>He has been comparing the 6.1 system to 4.9 system for a couple of weeks > >>and continues to insist the 6.1 version is much slower. [..] > In subjective tests R&D has done using the following setup we see "no" > problem: > > freebsd+firefo

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Michael Proto
Stephen Clark wrote: > Dominic Marks wrote: > >> Stephen Clark wrote: >> >> >>> Hello List, >>> >>> We have a network appliance that is currently based on 4.9. We are in >>> the process of releasing >>> a new version based on 6.1 stable. >>> >> >> You are going to get asked this, so I'll ask

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 14:51 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > Why are you releasing a new product on an already unsupported version? > 6.2 is the version you really need to be moving to not 6.1. FreeBSD 6.1 is not unsupported - far from it. When 6.1 was released, it was designated as an "Extended s

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Steven Hartland
7 1:05 PM Subject: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9 Hello List, We have a network appliance that is currently based on 4.9. We are in the process of releasing a new version based on 6.1 stable. In our testing using nttcp thru the appliance we see insignifant difference in thruput be

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Dominic Marks
Stephen Clark wrote: > Hello List, > > We have a network appliance that is currently based on 4.9. We are in > the process of releasing > a new version based on 6.1 stable. You are going to get asked this, so I'll ask first. Whats the reason behind not running a more recent STABLE? I understand d

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Claus Guttesen
We have a network appliance that is currently based on 4.9. We are in the process of releasing a new version based on 6.1 stable. In our testing using nttcp thru the appliance we see insignifant difference in thruput between the 2 versions in a controlled environment - aproximately 94mbs on a 100

network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-25 Thread Stephen Clark
Hello List, We have a network appliance that is currently based on 4.9. We are in the process of releasing a new version based on 6.1 stable. In our testing using nttcp thru the appliance we see insignifant difference in thruput between the 2 versions in a controlled environment - aproximate