On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Petr Janda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure, but SMP scalability is one of the key goals of DragonFly, and > > for it to be beaten by NetBSD (for which this is not a major goal, and > > for which SMP scalability only started being worked on a year ago) is > > very confusing. I haven't seen it compared with 1.12, but since no > > huge scalability work has gone in for a long time, I doubt it would > > close the gap much. > > While a scalable SMP implementation is a goal of DragonFly, so is many other > things. There isn't very many people around besides Matt that have the time > and the skill to help pushing the big giant lock out. it simple as that. Im > sure more developers would be welcome. But if evrything goes as planned with > HAMMER, i think you'll be seeing more interest in DragonFly quite soon and > probably much higher SMP performance by the end of the year.
I hope so, and I look forward to having more than a dual core so I can test it. There are some 16 CPU HP machines in my current work placement but even if they were x86, I still wouldn't have root :P -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia