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On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Alexander Schreiber wrote: Did you see the news item referenced at the top of that web page? http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/#netbsd2 -> [Nov 1 2003] I got an email suggesting that I re-check NetBSD. The -> results are nothing short of astonishing. In two weeks time the -> NetBSD team made dramatic improvements. -> -> * socket: previously O(n), now O(1). -> * bind: greatly improved, but still O(n). Much less steep, though. -> * fork: a modest O(n) for dynamically linked programs, O(1) for -> statically linked. -> * mmap: a bad O(n) before, now O(1) with a small O(n) shadow. -> * touch after mmap: a bad strange graph in 1.6.1, a modest O(n) a -> week ago, now O(1). -> * http request latency: previously O(n), now O(1). -> -> Congratulations, NetBSD! NetBSD now has better scalability than -> FreeBSD. -brian.