I should have linked this with yesterday’s post: Sepherosa Ziehau put together some extended benchmarks on his changes between DragonFly 4.8 and 5.0, and their effects on latency using nginx to serve a lot of requests.
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Sephe benchmarks are so fun to read. Wish more people used Dfly so he’d get more acknowledgement.
Agree that his is doing great work; I’d like to point out you also find commits from him over in FreeBSD.
I had no idea Sephe committed to FreeBSD. Interesting.
Do any CDNs use DragonflyBSD?
Seems like FreeBSD / Linux are still the go to for CDN but it seems like more people should be using Dragonfly instead.
Sephe was using DragonFly for a video delivery network in China, which is what drove a lot of his improvements. He’s at a new job now, and I don’t have more detail than that.
I thought he’s with HyperV/Intel. Are those just some sponsors(for this freebsd code)?
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I think sephe has to run hyperV at work, so to ease his working environment – he commonly commits hyperV patches.