Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> <giga-snippage>
> Summary
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> As with the dragonfly 1.8 kernel, the dragonfly 1.12 kernel does not
> scale to a second CPU on the benchmarks performed, and the limited SMP
> implementation can cause a large performance loss at higher loads.
> There is sometimes a large performance overhead from enabling SMP
> compared to UP, and performance was sometimes worse than that of 4.11.
> In all cases measured, FreeBSD 7.0 performs significantly better than
> both FreeBSD 4.11 and dragonfly 1.12 in both SMP and UP configurations.

Hi Kris,

I've been running a FBSD home firewall since before DragonFly was born,
and I've never changed because it does what I need.  Therefore I can
hardly be called anti-FBSD.

I think you will concede that FBSD started down a very bumpy road with
FBSD 5, but the subsequent improvement has been impressive, yes?  I give
all the FBSD devs great credit for that.

Matt forked from FBSD because he had a different road in mind -- a road
that is just as long as FBSD's, but with a tiny fraction of the manpower
that FBSD has enjoyed in the meantime.  If any DF evangelists have been
goading or taunting the FBSD people with claims of 'victory' I would hope
that the more mature audience would just let them pass as testosterone-
fired braggadocio.

This project continues to rely on improvements imported from FBSD.  I
hope that FBSD will likewise benefit from DragonFly.  That's what the
opensource world is all about (but I'm preaching to the choir).

I will continue to follow both projects (and others) with great interest.