Comments on: Holy crap, look at those numbers

By: SMP contention improvements – DragonFly BSD Digest

SMP contention improvements – DragonFly BSD Digest — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:40:09 +0000

[…] Matthew Dillon was using poudriere, the dports build tool, on a 48-core system. Poudriere was building all 20,000+ dports, so the machine was quite busy. He decided to get rid of as much contention as possible, and he’s listed all the ways DragonFly’s been streamlined by these efforts. We need to revisit some of our previous benchmarks… […]

By: François Tigeot

François Tigeot — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:53:19 +0000

I’d also like to thank CNRS/INSMI, the research organization which provided the machines for these tests. Without its help these tests and the associated performance improvements wouldn’t have been possible.

By: Alex Libman

Alex Libman — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:34:40 +0000

Who would use PostgreSQL? I do!

MySQL sucks, and not just because of the restrictive license… PG is the most advanced open source database system, and sometimes SQLite or NoSQL just won’t cut it.

Maybe 10 years from now computers will be so fast that embedded database libraries would be sufficient (and they would add the missing features), and everything would run on in-browser Web storage (ex. Web SQL Database / Indexed Database API)… But, for now, PostgreSQL is king!

By: jethro rose

jethro rose — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:09:49 +0000

Who would use pgsql? people who care about data integrity?

By: jajaja

jajaja — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:24:08 +0000

Who would use pgsql…excuse me while I vomit.

By: Petr

Petr — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:16:07 +0000

What’s very impressive is that DragonFly is now the most scalable BSD platform for PgSQL. Hopefully this will hit osnews/phoronix/slashdot. We should start getting the news out there.

By: Alex Libman

Alex Libman — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:08:49 +0000

Awesome! Hope this trend of performance improvements continues!

The problem with Linux is that it’s trying to be all things to all people, on dozens of architectures, from phones to desktops to servers to mainframes to TOP500 supercomputers. By focusing on mid-range x64 servers, DragonFly can achieve better performance than Linux in that segment, and then suddenly its usage numbers will skyrocket!

Perhaps additional performance benefits can be attained by standardizing a server stack of copyfree (permissively licensed, like BSD) components that are tuned to work together: DragonFly/HAMMER2, LLVM/Clang, PostgreSQL, nginx, etc…