Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

[Adrian Michael Nida <nida@xxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Dmitri Nikulin <dnikulin@gmail.com>:

> Hi everyone, I've been busy so I haven't said anything here in a long
> time, but reading about FreeBSD 7 has raised some thoughts.
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Same here.  From one old busy quiet guy to another, welcome back.

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> I look forward to being told I'm completely wrong and everything is
> much better than it seems :)
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"You're completely wrong and everything is much better than it seems"

Happy?  Let's now show you why...

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> The benchmark at http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/os-mysql.png
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Is measuring 1.8.  We're at 1.12 now.  I'm sure an updated graph has a 
different
trend.  Take it upon yourself to redo the benchmark.

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> At the risk of sounding like a troll, may I ask, if FreeBSD 7 has high
> performance, high stability and remains reasonably clean and
> maintainable, doesn't that partly invalidate the reasons DragonFly was
> created?
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Partly, but there are will always be many more for why it should continue.
Focus on those, we still have a long way to fly.

Adrian