Contributed by Srebrenko Sehic on from the help-them-to-help-you-to-help-us dept.
Here at Armorlogic, we regularly test new servers from major hardware vendors. Since our product Profense is based on OpenBSD, our testing results also show OpenBSD level of support.
OSCL (OpenBSD server compatibility list) currently shows the status of 13 servers from Dell, IBM, HP, Sun and Fujitsu-Siemens.
We stress-test the servers with regards to CPU(s), network and disk using tools like iogen, stress, dd, netperf, etc. The list will be updated as we test new servers or re-test old ones with new OpenBSD releases. We hope you find the information useful.
If you are running OpenBSD on a server not currently listed, please send a dmesg together with the relevant information about the server to ssehic _at_ armorlogic.com and we will include it in the list.
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By m0rf (68.104.17.51) on
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By Brad (216.138.195.228) brad at comstyle dot com on
By Srebrenko Sehic (130.226.138.37) on
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By Kevin (24.148.72.216) on http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=dmesgd
Sending your dmesg to dmesg@ is all well and good, except that this information is kept secret, not visible to the public, per Theo.
If you want your dmesg to be immediately useful to other users and not just a few developers, if you want to make your dmesgs public, submit them to NYCBUG's dmesgd.
By Anonymous Coward (82.182.25.187) on
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By Marco Peereboom (67.64.89.177) marco@peereboom.us on http://www.peereboom.us/
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By Alan Watson (132.248.81.29) alan@alan-watson.org on http://www.alan-watson.org/
I don't want to get into an argument about whether HTT is a good idea in general. I have a science code that runs 1.6 times faster with HTT on Linux. I was hoping to get the same improvement from OpenBSD.
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By Marco Peereboom (67.64.89.177) marco@peereboom.us on http://www.peereboom.us
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By Alan Watson (132.248.81.29) alan@alan-watson.org on http://www.alan-watson.org/
Unless I can get OpenBSD to recognize HTT on this Dell box, my options seem to be taking a hit of a factor of 1.5 or running Linux. Neither seem especially paletable.
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By Anonymous Coward (151.188.247.78) on
If you're looking for something that reminds you of *BSD (as I do), then you might also consider Slackware. Patrick Volkerding, its chief maintainer, seems to be rather anally retentive about keeping a nice, clean distribution, thus making it pretty easy to maintain. Think of it as GNU/Linux for FreeBSD users.
Both of these options support HyperThreading and multiprocessor boxes very well. I use both here on all of my SMP boxes, and OpenBSD on most of the uniprocessor boxes. Yes, I am a fan of OpenBSD, but my primary consideration, especially at work where my paycheck is provided, is to Get The Job Done (TM), and to do so with Free Software in spite of the Windoze preference here. If you're getting that kind of performance boost from running your application under HyperThreading environments, then by all means, do what you need to do.
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By Alan Watson (132.248.81.29) alan@alan-watson.org on http://www.alan-watson.org/
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By Anonymous Coward (151.188.247.78) on
I would think that a nice Opteron dual core box would be, perhaps, a better business case. I'm actually a little surprised that Apple didn't choose the Opteron, given its better performance.