Kill the radio (or die trying)

Hi, I'm Andrew Lyon.
I'm working on Stamp, a p2p identity system used as the foundations of other systems, like the upcoming version of Turtl (a p2p encrypted, collaborative knowledge base) and Basis (the world's favorite post-capitalist economic protocol).

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  • 200910.15

    Really good article on OS scalability

    Compared are Linux 2.4, 2.6, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Really well-performed benchmarks, with graphs.

    http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability

    Linux 2.6 was hands down the winner, which makes me feel good about Slackware (2.6 linux but actually stable) as a server. I'm sure Windows would have won if only it was benchmarked. One thing to keep in mind - from what I gathered, the machine tested was a single-processor, single-core machine...this means that SMP scalability was not tested, a HUGE consideration for more modern servers (what server now doesn't have multiple cores?) and may skew the modern-day results, especially between the two leads, FreeBSD and Linux 2.6.

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