From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Core 122 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 23:15:32 +0100 Message-ID: <463d69aefdae325b8f0eb41c9a97b95027965c37.camel@ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============9110710292063640039==" List-Id: --===============9110710292063640039== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Fred, thank you for getting in touch. On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 13:39 -0400, Kienker, Fred wrote: > Core 122 has been in the testing phase for almost a month now. Is there > anything outsiders can do to help accelerate the release? Yes, provide us feedback just like you are doing now. Even if there are no (new) bugs, we would like to know. So far, it has been really quiet, but I guess that has a lot to do with the hot weather, a world = cup and now people being on holiday. So, we have not been feeling very confident to roll out the update, but we ma= de the decision that it will be coming next week. > Things we have tried on Core 122 with success: > Updating copies of existing systems including those with VPN=E2=80=99s > Installing from scratch on bare metal machines > Transferring settings backups from existing machines to bare metal setups > =20 > No surprises with any of these. Machines were left running with the various > test setups for up to a week with no issues. All showed significant > performance boosts with the new kernel. Cool. Did you benchmark that? How has performance improved and on what hardwa= re are you running IPFire? =20 > One thing we have noticed =E2=80=93 to get the maximum benefit does require= a bare > metal install and a restore from backup. > Best regards, > Fred Kienker > =20 Best, -Michael --===============9110710292063640039==--