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Likely also by comparison to FreeBSD 5 directly after it, which introduced concurrent kernel entry (instead of a single giant lock) and was considered somewhat
by loeg 3y ago
Likely also by comparison to FreeBSD 5 directly after it, which introduced concurrent kernel entry (instead of a single giant lock) and was considered somewhat buggy for a while. Or so I am told.
- 0x457 3y ago5.x was extremely buggy and unstable. It got usable around only after 5.4 release. 5.x wasn't just the removal of Giant Lock, but also: - GEOM - Kernel Scheduled Entities There weren't any reasons to switch from 4.x to 5.x until 5.x got stable. Even with Giant Lock given the hardware at the time (Pentium with hyper threading) it wasn't that bad.