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I somehow have a hard time believing that you can feel the performance of the tcp stack while browsing of all things in a VM, are you sure it can be attributed to that?
Yes, I also have same hard time believing in it, but internet felt snappier.
FreeBSD 4.x was considered by many as the most stable FreeBSD ever. Mainly because there were 11 point releases of fixes and enhancements (4.11), as opposed to today where FreeBSD major version only have 3-4 point releases. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/
FreeBSD 4.x was considered by many as the most stable FreeBSD ever. Mainly because there were 11 point releases of fixes and enhancements (4.11), as opposed to today where FreeBSD major version only have 3-4 point releases. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/
It was not only the most stable, but for many applications, especially in networking, it was also the fastest single-threaded operating system, beating easily Linux and Windows XP or 2000. Unfortunately for FreeBSD, the launch of the Intel Pentium 4 with hyper-threading in 2003, then of the AMD dual-core CPUs in 2005 have made quickly FreeBSD 4 completely obsolete. The smaller FreeBSD team has required many years unt…
FreeBSD 4 wasn't too bad on dual cpu systems, as I recall. Fine grained locking gets more important as cpu counts grow, of course, but at 2, the single Giant lock isn't unreasonable.
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Yes, I also have same hard time believing in it, but internet felt snappier.
Sounds more likely that your OS just had less things going on and your browser not as many extensions running as your daily driver browser.
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Yes, I also have same hard time believing in it, but internet felt snappier.
Sounds more likely that your OS just had less things going on and your browser not as many extensions running as your daily driver browser.
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I somehow have a hard time believing that you can feel the performance of the tcp stack while browsing of all things in a VM, are you sure it can be attributed to that?
Yes, I also have same hard time believing in it, but internet felt snappier.
FreeBSD 4.x was considered by many as the most stable FreeBSD ever. Mainly because there were 11 point releases of fixes and enhancements (4.11), as opposed to today where FreeBSD major version only have 3-4 point releases. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/
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That's also the period Yahoo and other companies had a tremendous investment in FreeBSD. FreeBSD is great on its own, and that amount of attention also meant every single bit of performance would be extracted no matter what it takes, and any scaling or stability issues would be hammered out pretty quick. Until they moved to redhat...
> Until they moved to redhat... Does anybody know why they switched to RedHat ?
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It was not only the most stable, but for many applications, especially in networking, it was also the fastest single-threaded operating system, beating easily Linux and Windows XP or 2000. Unfortunately for FreeBSD, the launch of the Intel Pentium 4 with hyper-threading in 2003, then of the AMD dual-core CPUs in 2005 have made quickly FreeBSD 4 completely obsolete. The smaller FreeBSD team has required many years unt…
I've only ever lost data on Linux ext* filesystems, never on FreeBSD UFS or ZFS. 20 years ago it was unfortunately not unusual to experience the Linux "nuclear fsck" where it scrolls by so fast and for so long you know it's toast.