TLS is not a feature, it is a problem. It was added because of the very problems that started this thread. Modern linux software expect stupid crap like that,

TLS is not a feature, it is a problem. It was added because of the very problems that started this thread. Modern linux software expect stupid crap like that, so NetBSD eventually feels forced to add it. The entire point is that BSDs try to avoid adding unnecessary complexity like that. The dragonfly benchmark doesn't give us any real info, so it is impossible to say what exactly the problem is. Clearly something is wrong though, given we already know netbsd made performance and scalability a major focus of the 5.0 release, and nobody has reported any regressions in 6.0: http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img13.html http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img13.html