OpenBSD AMD64 SMP in testing

agent dero writes "Naysayers beware, at the recent Calgary OpenBSD Hackathon, there has been some major improvements in OpenBSD's SMP support which was recently merged with -current. According to this recent article at undeadly.org the code is ready for testing, but the OpenBSD team could really use some permanent AMD64 SMP hardware for testing. Notable achievments include a kernel compile in around 80 seconds."

Comments

Re:Interesting

[noselasd]

Well, you only need a 32way pSeries p690 to compile the linux kernel in 4.8 seconds. Nothing fancy like beowulf or distcc needed.

Re:BSD is one dead bitch

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Interesting

[Brandybuck]

Or is that only a Linux thing?

No, distcc and clusters work with BSDs, and most other operating systems, too.

Re:BSD is one dead bitch

[Anonymous Coward]

You forgot:
DragonflyBSD ekkoBSD PicoBSD

Enjoy :)

Re:Good for us

[tigga]

Nothing, once the kernel is _built_ to your needs on an OpenBSD machine, you _really_ don't need to recompile it, ever.

Maybe from security point of view... And if that box performs just one function or two you don't need to touch it. But adding new devices and features may need it. And bugs lurk there as well.