The new look on undeadly.org sure is nice.
- RETGUARD, the OpenBSD next level in exploit mitigation, is about to debut.
- Can a BSD system replicate the performance of high-end router appliance? Benchmarking would A: show the answer and B: I bet show that the throughput needs of the poster were not as high as they thought.
- Which Unix had the first package manager?
- FreeBSD 10.4-BETA1 Available.
- subversion via ssh passphrase-less key. Really about capturing DNS changes.
- deraadt@ moves us to 6.2-beta!
- t2k17 Hackathon Reports: Daniel Jakots on updating ports, Nagios OpenBGPD plugin and…, Ian Sutton on ARM progress, My first time (Aaron Bieber), Philip Guenther: locking and libc, Andrew Hewus Fresh on Perl and Coffee, and No lock no cry… with CTF! (Martin Pieuchot).
- Kernel syspatches will soon be smaller thanks to KARL.
- PFsense <-> EdgeOS IPSec tunnels.
- Faster forwarding.
- AF3e status, 22 August 2017. That’s ‘Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition’.
- The Manifest – A podcast all about package management. I’m sure this will include BSD packaging systems at some point. (via)
- BSDCan 2017 videos have started being uploaded. (via)
Re: BSD performance compared to highend router.
The article states:
“Finally, there is recent work in FreeBSD (which is part of 11.1-RELEASE) that gets performance up to 2x the level of netmap-fwd or the work by Nanako Momiyama. Here is a decent introduction.”
Given the recent network perf benchmark that Sepherosa Ziehau completed and it showing FreeBSD so poor
https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/perf_cmp.pdf
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2017/03/06/19425.html
I wonder how much of an improve FreeBSD networking is now
Re: BSD performance compared to highend router.
The article states:
“Finally, there is recent work in FreeBSD (which is part of 11.1-RELEASE) that gets performance up to 2x the level of netmap-fwd or the work by Nanako Momiyama. Here is a decent introduction.”
Given the recent network perf benchmark that Sepherosa Ziehau completed and it showing FreeBSD so poor
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2017/03/06/19425.html
I wonder how much of an improve FreeBSD networking is now
I recently completed the configurable # of netisrs, which is intended to improve IP forwarding performance if there is enough NIC RX rings. Don’t have time to do the complete measure yet.
@Sepherosa
You’re awesome. So impressed with your development.
Dfly has gotten so strong lately, I have to wonder … is there any longer a major reason why someone should use FreeBSD over Dly anymore (for web server and or database OS)?
Dly truly seems to do it all, and typically does it better than FreeBSD.
Dflybsd seems to be equally strong and often stronger in a lot of areas
I would like someone with a specific work scenario to test it with different BSDs, and publish it. That’s a LOT of labor to produce, though.
What’s fantastic about the slides from 2014 below that Francois Tigeot completed is it perf benchmarking database (Postgres) load on various BSD and Linux
http://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/attachments/309_PG_as_bench_mark.pdf
In my opinion these type of common-use-case benchmarks are super important not because we’re trying to see who’s OS is a few percentage points faster but more so to:
1. To ensure the OS isn’t regressing
2. To ensure the OS is performing relative to other OS (e.g. if one OS is way below other OS in perf, that should be investigated)
3. To provide a relative gauge on the merits of how one OS implements a feature and what perf impact that has in comparison to other OS
I really hope Francois can find time to update these slides.