OpenBSD AMD64 SMP in testing

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Posted by Hemos on Saturday June 26, 2004 @01:25AM 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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Re:really? by some_other_nerd · 2004-06-26 01:58 · Score: 3, Interesting

It's dead? What will happen when Joe 6.pkg uses Linux and all of us geeks need a new 'underdog' OS to use?

Once Linux gains (some) popularity, the geeks will most likely move on to HURD, OpenBeOS, and *BSD.

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Good for us by vijaya_chandra · 2004-06-26 03:24 · Score: 2, Interesting

"Notable achievments include a kernel compile in around 80 seconds."

Hope that such compile times on the developers' systems would result in kernels that wouldn't need a recompilation/replacement for years on systems in production
1. Re:Good for us by Shanep · 2004-06-26 22:45 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  Nothing, once the kernel is _built_ to your needs on an OpenBSD machine, you _really_ don't need to recompile it, ever.
  
  Or, looking at it another way, if you are a user tracking -stable, so as to stay up-to-date with security and stability patches, you should be recompiling the OpenBSD kernel (and then some) a lot more often than never.
  
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80 seconds, eh? by F2F · 2004-06-27 07:26 · Score: 4, Interesting

Well, here in Plan 9-land we get our kernels compiled for 8 seconds (Theo himself admits our compilers are blazingly fast):
plan9% time mk 'CONF=pccpu' > /dev/null 3.44u 3.26s 8.85r mk CONF=pccpu plan9% ls -l 9pccpu --rwxrwxr-x M 106460 andrey andrey 1554980 Jun 27 13:23 9pccpu plan9%

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