> Soo... Your performance requirements may met by OpenBSD despite it's > current poor SMP support - other OSes will scale on SMP. Trade-offs, > trade-offs... It's a psychological issue. We have all this multicore > hardware that doesn't get taken advantage of by this OS, and it's > always in the backs of our minds, but the security and simplicity > trade-offs may be worth it anyway, so screw the hardware.
Or put it another way. I couldn't help but smile when someone told me their 16-way SMP box had been holed by a bug in their ld.so.