Comments on: Goals for DragonFly

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:25:49 +0000

You know, if you wait until SMP’s working, you’re going to get in when all the fun parts are done. :) (I’m making the assumption that you’d want to work on that, of course.)

The things that attract me to DragonFly isn’t SMP status, but the quality of the people working on it, and the chance to be part of the group that gets there.

That being said, I’d like SMP support to be better, and it’s getting there. Aggelos and Sepeherosa have been working on getting networking out from under the Giant Lock, and other chunks of the system have been getting made multiprocessor-safe.

You can always run it in an emulator – VMWare, VirtualBox, Qemu, etc., and give it a try. I don’t think you’ll really be hurt by the current system; it’ll run pretty darn fast no matter what.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:54:37 +0000

Concernedizen, 64-bit was one of the SOC projects this year, so that may make it into the upcoming release. I’m not so sure about SMP–you’d probably get better results asking on the mailing lists.

By: Concernedizen

Concernedizen — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:39:00 +0000

Something that concerns me is the lack of SMP progress.. I know it’s not Matt’s current personal goal but eventually developers will be running quad core PCs.. and maybe they already are? Is there a status update on this somewhere that I missed? Last thing I remember is the framework for it to be potentially done being finished.. a couple years ago now I think. I _want_ to jump on board, but I currently have a machine with 4gb ram (need 64 bit to use it all) and a quad core CPU – I’d essencially be ‘downgrading’ to use the OS. :(