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Or FreeBSD. There have been some huge improvements to scalability of network, filesystems, and memory management recently.

• fullstop 7y ago
  Any details on that? We're spinning up a 48 core epyc soon on 12.1. The last "beefy" server we did was a 32 core intel on 11.x, and I'll be happy if these changes are in 12.1.
  • drewg123 7y ago
    You want 13-current. A lot of the NUMA work that has been done is pretty invasive, and not suitable for backporting because it changes KBIs
    • trasz 7y ago
      Definitely. Some of the network changes (epoch(9), kind of like RCU) went into 12, IIRC, but you mostly want 13-CURRENT.