On Wednesday 23 June 2010 11:16:37 Marco Peereboom wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 04:53:09PM +0200, Ektor Wetterstr?m wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Kevin Chadwick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What are the unsurpassable real world weaknesses in OpenBSD, that you > > > know of? > > > > Lack of proper SMP support, inefficient threading (old userland-only > > SMP is proper. I think you meant biglock vs fine grained locking. Fine > grained locking is a 10 year process. > > Threads are weak however no amount of work will ever unstupid threads. > > > thread library), no support for modern filesystems (not even FFS2!), > > FFS2 works just fine for me. Sure if you care about > ZFS/crashfs/losemyfilesfs then that can be considered an issue. If you > want ZFS you should be running solaris anyway. > > > suboptimal NFS performances... > > Not much difference from loonox/solaris. > > There is no debate that other OS' do things faster. If you need those > things to run faster then you should be running those other OS'. Or > wait until OpenBSD developers get around to it or even better help > writing code to make it faster without compromising the goals of the > project. > > So thank you anonymous person on the internet for complaining, very > helpful.
When people grouce and caterwaul about OpenBSD's speed, I remind them that faster hardware could help things. One such complainer came back to me with the statement that switching to FreeBSD resulted in his MySQL running better. I asked if he'd done some benchmarks between OpenBSD and FreeBSD. He had. Proudly, he showed me his results. 8% ! My laughter was not understood. --STeve Andre'
