What we need to keep in mind, is that techincally, just because we keep our mind in security for the first concern, it should not take as an excuse for delivering slow processing.
Sacrifice correctness for speed is completing nonsense. I cannot even try to understand it: what is the value of a program processing tasks fast and devilering wrong results. So, the next time some justify openbsd being less faster than X, or even Y because of its security oriented models, i wonder that's the real motivation behind the scenes. One good example, the the qmail, extremely fast and secure. So, secure is not a trade off for speed. Just my opnions so far. On 5/25/06, Antonios Anastasiadis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As a matter of fact, yes, Linux and FreeBSD are indeed more "scalable" and usually faster in heavy workloads that involve databases, heavy input/output loads etc in multiprocessor systems. However, the question here is: Are you willing to sacrifice OpenBSD's security and correctness to get the SMP scalability these other OSes offer? Do *you* really need all that stuff, or want to run it because it "should be faster"? Just test your application and see if you really need the extra performance. Speaking for myself, I am happily willing to sacrifice a bit of performance for everything else OpenBSD does right.
