This past couple of days, I worked with our web guy as I redeployed our web cluster from FreeBSD 6.x-STABLE to FreeBSD 7.x-STABLE.

We also moved from the rock solid and never failing (and now end of lifed) PHP4 to PHP5 along the way.

My subjective view of FreeBSD 7 vs 6 on our web cluster gives me the feeling that 7 does feel faster with the new ULE scheduler.

I say subjective because I didn’t take real benchmarks before or afterwards, only on how the system felt (responsiveness) and using very basic tools (top, systat -vmstat).

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