No, SMP was only absent in OpenBSD. It was just not a priority for the project. Nevertheless, it is a welcome addition.
Can anyone "in the know" shed some light about the qualities of the OpenBSD code? How does OpenBSD's SMP model compare to fine-grained locking, such as in FreeBSD-CURRENT?
When I see how much effort and trouble has gone and is going into locking down the FreeBSD kernel, I am guessing that OpenBSD's SMP support will be fairly primitive to start with. Or are there heavy ports from FreeBSD?
There can be technical approaches to deal with this.
One could think of a karma system; potentially joe jobbed networks would receive one abuse mail per incident with a link to confirm that a mailing is legit or that they are innocent bystanders. A timely response from owner would prevent a site from turning up in blocklists.
A spammer could theoretically confirm their spam messages, but this would require them to be tracable to a working email address and possibly IP address. To make it more robust, confirms could involve a visual image. The IP-addresses of the confirmation requests might also be useful for detecting spammer activity.
This argument I don't quite understand - I don't think the guys in the IT department are responsible for any of the problems the country faces. Would you suggest that they'd halt any improvements and proposals until the other departments have sorted those out? Surely anything that provides an economic benefit is well needed in this time...
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No, SMP was only absent in OpenBSD. It was just not a priority for the project. Nevertheless, it is a welcome addition.
Can anyone "in the know" shed some light about the qualities of the OpenBSD code? How does OpenBSD's SMP model compare to fine-grained locking, such as in FreeBSD-CURRENT?
When I see how much effort and trouble has gone and is going into locking down the FreeBSD kernel, I am guessing that OpenBSD's SMP support will be fairly primitive to start with. Or are there heavy ports from FreeBSD?
There can be technical approaches to deal with this.
One could think of a karma system; potentially joe jobbed networks would receive one abuse mail per incident with a link to confirm that a mailing is legit or that they are innocent bystanders. A timely response from owner would prevent a site from turning up in blocklists.
A spammer could theoretically confirm their spam messages, but this would require them to be tracable to a working email address and possibly IP address. To make it more robust, confirms could involve a visual image. The IP-addresses of the confirmation requests might also be useful for detecting spammer activity.
This argument I don't quite understand - I don't think the guys in the IT department are responsible for any of the problems the country faces. Would you suggest that they'd halt any improvements and proposals until the other departments have sorted those out? Surely anything that provides an economic benefit is well needed in this time...