On Monday 14 September 2009 13:39:46 Tom Smith wrote: > Hi Misc, > > Even though this article: http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability was many years > ago and performance in OpenBSD had improved greatly since that time, I > still hear people (mostly younger people) complain about OpenBSD > performance. They cite poor threading, unused cores, no bigmem support, > etc. Yet, when asked outright to demonstrate their issue, no one can show > numbers or reproduce a performance issue. How do others defend OpenBSD in > these conversations? I normally cite the things I admire most about > OpenBSD: > > 1. Simplicty - (IMO, this is by far its greatest attribute... simple is > secure) > 2. OpenSSH > 3. pf, carp, OpenBGPD > 4. built-in security > 5. ports collection > > But, I'd like to have hard technicaly data to demonstrate that while Linux > and FreeBSD may scale to a gazillion CPUs and PetaBytes of Memory that > OpenBSD makes a fine firewall or desktop or mail server, etc and point out > that the old article so many people cite is indeed *old*. > > Thanks for any suggestions. I hate seeing such a fine OS so easily > dismissed by folks (many of whom) have never even tried it!
Attempting to prove the worth of OpenBSD to folks who are not able to figure things out for themsevles is much like trying to teach butterflies Calculus. It doesn't work and wastes your time. --STeve Andre'
