Another ‘quiet’ week – lots of commit activity in the other BSDs, but not a lot to point at directly.
- PostgreSQL/FreeBSD performance and scalability on a 40-core machine. (PDF link, via) There’s comparison to DragonFly’s results, mentioned here before. DragonFly’s solution of shared page tables is dismissed because it would require work to do, though I think that’s a symptom of FreeBSD’s more complex locking model rather than complexity of what’s in DragonFly.
- pkgsrc-2014Q2 is out.
- Here’s some notes on the systemd compatibility GSoC/OpenBSD project.
- The FreeBSD ixgbe(4) driver understands RSS, and so does igb(4).
- FreeBSD GENERIC kernels can now use vt(4), the replacements for syscons.
- FreeBSD images can now boot UEFI.
- FreeBSD 9/10 users using the WITH_NEW_XORG option have a temporary binary ports repository to use, to handle the change in the drivers.
That’s the older benchmarks for dfly, not the more recent one that Francois did.
Talking about this GSoC, systemd/udev shit is getting worse every time…
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019664.html
..and is spreading deeper like a cancer. It bothers me that projects like Gnome somewhere in the future will need stuff like kdbus.
It started with a firmware loader, but, where else it can gets?
CentOS 7 was released today, so now systemd will start infecting production environments. Fear not though, CentOS 7 will be to Redhat what Windows ME was to Microsoft. People will migrate to BSD, in the end, I think it will benefit BSD, recent events have already brought more eyes on BSD.