By JT Pennington
Published April 05, 2017 7:00am
Today on BSD Now, the latest Dragonfly BSD release, RaidZ performance, another OpenSSL Vulnerability, and more; all this week on BSD Now.This episode was brought to you by
HeadlinesDragonFly BSD 4.8 is releasedImproved kernel performanceThis release further localizes cache lines and reduces/removes cache ping-ponging on globals. For bulk builds on many-cores or multi-socket systems, we have around a 5% improvement, and certain subsystems such as namecache lookups and exec()s see massive focused improvements. See the corresponding mailing list post with details.Support for eMMC booting, and...