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NetBSD Focuses On Scalability
An anonymous reader writes "Felix von Leitner recently performed some benchmarks (previous story) for a talk about scalable network programming he held at Linux Kongress 2003. The winners in this scalability lineup were Linux and FreeBSD 5, followed by NetBSD and finally OpenBSD.
What's interesting is that in only two weeks time the NetBSD team made dramatic improvements. Felix performed his benchmarks again and the results are nothing short of astonishing. NetBSD now has better scalability than FreeBSD." Read on for a list of improvements.
the submitter lists these changes:
- socket: previously O(n), now O(1).
- bind: greatly improved, but still O(n). Much less steep, though.
- fork: a modest O(n) for dynamically linked programs, O(1) for statically linked.
- mmap: a bad O(n) before, now O(1) with a small O(n) shadow.
- touch after mmap: a bad strange graph in 1.6.1, a modest O(n) a week ago, now O(1).
- http request latency: previously O(n), now O(1)
This is a very good job from the NetBSD team! I hope to see more benchmarks and more improvement for a great OS like NetBSD."
If only they could get support from nvidia for my controler ... This will be better than all other improvement
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