If you think micro benchmarks are worth anything you have a micro understanding of the problem.
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:39:46PM -0400, 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!
