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OpenBSD AMD64 SMP in testing

Posted by Hemos on from the joanne-pater-will-love-it dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Interesting by noselasd · · Score: 4, Informative

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

  2. Re:Interesting by Brandybuck · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or is that only a Linux thing?

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

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