Nice update, thanks! dandantheitman wrote: > On 26/10/05, Christopher Saul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Interesting article. >> >>What's BSD's scaling like these days? Do they scale well over two cpus? >> >>Chris > > Tough Call on this one Chris. I can give you the most accurate info > on OpenBSD. SMP Support for AMD64 and i386 has been available since > 3.6, 3.7 is the current release, 3.8 comes out the first of November, > although Austin over at openBSD has told me he that has already > shipped me my order. So I should have 11 copies arriving soon. I > digress, anyway. I have it running on a dual processor Opteron and it > worked out of the box. > > As far as FreeBSD goes, after FreeBSD released the framework for SMP > and threading under FreeBSD 5, there was a conflict between the > developers, several developers felt that the SMP and threading model > used by FreeBSD 5.x would lead to crap performance, so FreeBSD > Forked. Matt Dillion created Dragonfly BSD which continues to use the > 4.11 framework but uses Light Weight kernel Threading and his > implementation of SMP. > > I don't follow NetBSD, so I have no idea how their SMP implementation > is going at the moment. MaxOS X also supports SMP, which is based on > Darwin - which is the mach kernel with a 4.4 BSD wrapper. > > As far as hard drive and storage scaling, UFS is limited to two Tb, in > 2003 UFS 2 was released which allowed storage to a much greater > capacity. > > In my humble opinion I think that SMP is still pretty young in the BSD > community. However clustering is old hat. > > daN > -- > _____________________________________________________________ > " They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety > deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >
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