[HN Gopher] OpenBSD 7.8
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OpenBSD 7.8
Author : rhabarba
Score : 28 points
Date : 2025-10-21 19:38 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.openbsd.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.openbsd.org)
| justin66 wrote:
| Not scheduled to drop until tomorrow, so anything on this page is
| probably subject to change. Still:
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| _TCP stack is now running in parallel on multiple CPUs. Up to 8
| threads are used to process TCP traffic._
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| That feels like it might be a big change.
| rhabarba wrote:
| I upgraded my OpenBSD machines a few hours ago, and I'm still
| not entirely sure whether I notice any obvious TCP speed
| improvement. Then again, they're not really high-load
| computers. Maybe people with a higher throughput will be
| amazed.
| jsiepkes wrote:
| Kinda surprised OpenBSD supports the Raspberry Pi 5 now, but
| "bigger" brother FreeBSD does not.
| rhabarba wrote:
| FreeBSD is not really curious about being as portable as
| possible, I think. And it is somewhat larger, indeed, so it's
| not quite as easy to support more platforms.
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