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On 2/25/08, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How good is the support? I want to know how well OpenBSD takes advantage > of multiple processors compared to how well Linux does (running > multi-threaded processes). OpenBSD's kernel uses a big lock architecture so only one processor can run kernel code at a time. > On a 4 CPU machine can I expect lesser or greater performance than Linux? Lesser. But benchmark and see if it makes a difference for your use case. For our network, being able to handle 80,000 DNS queries per second per machine isn't a concern.
