On 9/29/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Herold wrote: > > Are there any numbers or technical papers? Just out of curiosity. > > I ran a mysql benchmark against Dragonfly-current and FreeBSD 7 on an > 8-core machine (one of the workloads that FreeBSD now performs very well > at) and found 0 scaling on dragonfly. Their developers confirmed that > the kernel is still entirely giant locked (as in FreeBSD 4) so no SMP > performance benefits are possible. > > The email thread is here: > > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2007-05/msg00134.html > > although the linked graph is offline. The FreeBSD curve was essentially > this one (FreeBSD has improved further since then): > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/scaling.png > > with dragonfly a flat line at ~500 tps independent of load. > > Kris
How does NetBSD, and OpenBSD scale when it comes to SMP comparing to FreeBSD 7.0? -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"