FreeBSD Release Question

[Balakumar Velmurugan]

Vulpes Velox wrote:

>On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 15:07:00 -0700
>Balakumar Velmurugan <vbkumar at mataira.com> wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>     We are starting development on a new project that would go 
>>production in the fall of 2005. I have been evaluating Release 4.x
>>and 5.x branches for the suitability. Our target platform is AMD64
>>and AMD32 uni-processor systems. We like most of 5.x features except
>>for its performance and conerns about the availability of a STABLE
>>version in our time window,  and I would like your opinion to choose
>>the right FreeBSD version tree to start the development right now.
>>BTW,  we dont have any plans to run on SMP architecture, our target
>>platform will always be uni-processor based. Questions are,
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>>1. By Sep 2005, do you think 5.x performance will be optimized and
>>be comparable to today's 4.x stable versions ?
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>Which did you test? Did you turn debugging and ect off? Tried
>5.3beta7 yet?
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I tried 5.2.1 and havent tried the beta7, yet.  Can you tell me, what is 
the release tag for beta7 ?. RELENG_5_3_BETA7 didnt work for me !! 
Thanks for your pointers.

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>>2. By Sep 2005, do you think 5.x will be as stable as today's 4.x 
>>released versions ?
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>http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html
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>>3.  What is the most architecturally optimized FreeBSD version if he
>>primary application is network services, IP forwarding and various 
>>TCP/UDP services ?
>>4.  What is the most architecturally optimized FreeBSD version if he
>>primary application is network services, IP forwarding and various 
>>TCP/UDP services ?
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>Not tried forwarding yet on 5x, but for TCP/UDP services, not speed
>problems with them on my box.
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>Wait a bit till 5.3 is released and then bench market it after
>optimizing it.
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