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…
A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
What kind of CPU and motherboard is Matthew Dillon using?
Supermicro H8QG6
AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6168
Helpfully supplied by Sascha Wildner.