Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Jul 2007 13:57 UTC, submitted by Oliver
"The NetBSD Foundation announces that it has hired Andrew Doran to work full-time on improving symmetrical multi-processing in NetBSD. This work is made possible through a generous donation by Force10 Networks and internal funding by The NetBSD Foundation. Andrew Doran is an independent, Dublin based Unix systems consultant with special interest in building scalable systems. He has been a NetBSD developer since 1999 and is currently working on the transition from a big-lock SMP implementation to a fine-grained model, which allows multiple CPUs to execute code in kernel context simultaneously. Hiring Andrew full-time will boost work in this area, with the final result of a SMP implementation that is ready for tomorrow's multi-core-CPUs."
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2005-12-31
I don't think anyone was trying to say BSD or Linux is the better OS in the previous posts. It was more an explanation of why Linux didn't do so well ( from smp performance perspective; handling multiple threads on multiple processor system ) in the graphs I linked to.
I actually found the Linux statements/posts informative and would definitely be interested to see actual benchmarking because I'd like to know which has the better smp implementation - BSD or Linux. Or to see if both OSes perform fairly similar in handling multiple threads/cpus, etc.
I believe the OS with the better smp implementation will make the better server, from performance aspect ( though reliability and security are also essential too ). I'm more interested in finding out smp performance and scalability ( mostly for FreeBSD vs Linux to see how they compare ).