Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> writes:
> Given the last round of benchmarks and they improvements that were
> made to NetBSD after them, this sounds very interesting. Ideas? What
> is it that NetBSD can do better than Linux (and FreeBSD :-).

One thing that all open-source distributions stumble on to some extent
is 64-bit cleanliness.  On some distributions programs like (cpio,
rdist) seem to be plagued with 32-bit file size limits.  Some
distributions have 32-bit file-size limits on NFS.  Others have
problems when running on 64-bit CPU's of dealing with > 32-bit bss or
data segments when either malloc-ing the memory or mmap-ing it.  This
should be a fun bake-off because everybody has these problems, and in
many cases they are relatively simple to fix which will lead to a lot
of frenzied fixing which will be good for the open-source community as
a whole.

(Trying to deal with creating, moving and archiving an 8GByte data
file has been an eye opener.  Nobody seems to get all aspects of this
right.)

-wolfgang