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> “ From what I recall, the FreeBSD team made the right call at the time.” I’m not so sure. Given how unstable FreeBSD 5 (intro of new SMP) was, until it fina
by tiffanyh 3y ago
> “ From what I recall, the FreeBSD team made the right call at the time.”
I’m not so sure.
Given how unstable FreeBSD 5 (intro of new SMP) was, until it finally stabilized multiple years later at v8.0 - I’m not sure others would have that same sentiment.
And seeing how DragonflyBSD performance is standing up to FreeBSD (and best’ing it times) even though they have a radically smaller developer community (and no corporate support) - it does challenge the topic of who was right.
I do think objectively, people would state that DragonflyBSD chose a clean/simpler architecture that’s easier to understand
https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-eo2021 https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-eo2021
- gonzo 3y agoFreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE was announced January 19, 2003. Matt Dillon announced DragonFly BSD nearly 20 years ago on July,16 2003 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE was announced Nov 25, 2009 You’re talking about events that took place over 13.5 years ago. On the benchmarks: Where are the Apache, NginX, PostgreSQL and Redis benchmarks? Where are the measurements of network performance?
- IntelMiner 3y ago>Where are the Apache, NginX, PostgreSQL and Redis benchmarks? >Where are the measurements of network performance? You'd have to ask Larabel about that. But given that Dragonfly can seemingly trade blows with FreeBSD *18 years later* does seem to suggest there's some merits to their design
- agapon 3y agoDragonflyBSD design is definitely not without merits. But FreeBSD took the mainstream approach.
- sillywalk 3y agoHere are some benchmarks, https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/ https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/
- gonzo 3y agoWhich are a decade old?
- sillywalk 3y agoOops, I was actually replying to the parent post about benchmarks from 2008. https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/ https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/ Has one from 2012 and an update 2018 with a Threadripper 2990WX, though there is no comparison chart.. Oh.. here is a benchmark [0] from 2021, Dragonfly performs comparably with Ubuntu and FreeBSD 13 on an intel core i9 of some type. I have no idea whether these benchmarks reflect real world performance. I also don't know where and how much Dragonfly is used in 'production'. [0] https://www.phoronix.com/review/corei9-freebsd13-dfly6 https://www.phoronix.com/review/corei9-freebsd13-dfly6