It is times like these that I recall a comment John Carmack made once during an interview years ago, regarding the release of Quake ???. When asked when it would be released, he simply stated "When It is done".
I believe that with the release of 8.2, we are at a point where if you have older hardware with minimum ram requirements, it is never going to run as efficiently as the 8.1xx release.
The major revamp in reporting and the addition of L7 classification put additional stress on ram and cpu and if you were just getting by before, you won't be happy with the results this time.
Another thing that I have noticed personally is that the clean install works the best for me. I have also created new QoS rules utilizing the application control instead of carrying over my old rules and I am fairly happy with 8.201. Granted its not as snappy as 8.1 but if you want to measure just the feel, I bet my old v4 astaro was the snappiest and stablest of them all but was also missing all the functionality of a modern distro.
I was running 8.1x with 1GB ram for home use and it ran fairly decent. With local content database, I moved to a different hardware on esxi and was running with 2GB ram and was still swapping without enabling IPS. Now I have allocated 2.5GB ram to astaro without IPS and local content filter database and the swapping is gone. This is to give you an idea of memory requirements that I am seeing. This is almost like when vista came out. Most people tried to upgrade their old PC that was running xp sp2 with 256mb ram and hated vista. I had 2GB ram in my old pc that I upgraded from and vista ran fine for me. My dedicated video card handled the aero interface flawlessly too but if you search on the internet, vista was a disaster and win7 is awesome. I don't see any difference between the two other than most people have better hardware now than they had when vista came out.
So to all the people that are holding for a miracle in 8.202, it will fix minor problems and increase stability. But if your astaro is mis-configured or you are barely getting by on the hardware requirements, this is not going to be the magic release.
I second Billybob. I have been following the tuning thread and gained over 1mb/s in download speed improvement. Yes, it is better than my last report. Gone up from 3.8 to nearly 5mb/s.
HTTP proxy is working well in full transparent mode and memory database. I have tuned IPS a number of times, changed the QOS over to the application settings. Swap grows to about 2% over 10 or more days.
Tonight I rebuilt the ASG from the 8.201 ISO hopefully getting rid of an occasional fault report, it is now a completely new system (well nearly CPU, memory, motherboard and dual port intel NIC), from 6 months ago.
