From announce at lists.nycbug.org Fri Feb 1 11:59:42 2013 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:59:42 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming Message-ID: February 7, 645 PM - Location: Suspenders How SMPng Works and Why It Doesn't Work The Way You Think, John Baldwin Modern x86 CPUs have hit a wall in frequency scaling and are now expanding sideways by adding more cores. Adding more cores does not magically multiply performance, however. John talks about some of the reasons that it doesn't. In 2000, FreeBSD launched a project to multithread its kernel to more fully take advantage of modern SMP machines. This talk will give an overview of that project's history and continuing work on improving scalability. About the speaker: John first started using FreeBSD in 1996 and has been an active kernel developer since 2000. He has worked for various companies that use FreeBSD including The Weather Channel and Yahoo!. John lives in New Jersey with his wife and three kids. **** March 6: Brett Wynkoop on Hacking the BeagleBone with FreeBSD April 3: Brian Callahan on MIPS on OpenBSD From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sat Feb 2 22:59:52 2013 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 22:59:52 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG meeting: date correction Message-ID: > > February 7, 645 PM - Location: Suspenders > > How SMPng Works and Why It Doesn't Work The Way You Think, John Baldwin Note that the meeting is February 6th, not the 7th. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Feb 6 10:17:40 2013 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:17:40 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight Message-ID: February 6, 645 PM - Location: Suspenders (note date correction. thanks Spork!) (cross-posting to announce@ and talk@ as a temporary measure only) ->How SMPng Works and Why It Doesn't Work The Way You Think, John Baldwin Modern x86 CPUs have hit a wall in frequency scaling and are now expanding sideways by adding more cores. Adding more cores does not magically multiply performance, however. John talks about some of the reasons that it doesn't. In 2000, FreeBSD launched a project to multithread its kernel to more fully take advantage of modern SMP machines. This talk will give an overview of that project's history and continuing work on improving scalability. About the speaker: John first started using FreeBSD in 1996 and has been an active kernel developer since 2000. He has worked for various companies that use FreeBSD including The Weather Channel and Yahoo!. John lives in New Jersey with his wife and three kids. **** March 6: Brett Wynkoop on Hacking the BeagleBone with FreeBSD April 3: Brian Callahan on MIPS on OpenBSD From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Feb 18 10:52:58 2013 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:52:58 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tor-BSD List Message-ID: The New York City *BSD User Group (nycbug.org) is proud to announce a mailing list dedicated to running the Tor anonymity software on the BSDs. The list aims to become a forum for BSD users and developers interested in improving the performance and expanding the use of the BSDs as a platform for Tor. Tor is an open source public anonymity network that is utilized around the world for anonymity and to bypass internet censorship. More information can be found at https://www.torproject.org. At this point, the only BSD recommended by the Tor Project is FreeBSD 5.x or higher. While there is an OpenBSD port, and a pkgsrc port for NetBSD and Dragonfly BSD, they are not considered recommended operating system platforms. This is one issue the list could approach. We believe the BSDs make an ideal platform for running Tor considering the stability and security track record of the operating systems. We welcome all interested individuals running or developing Tor on any of the BSDs to join the list. The mailing list is located at http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/tor-bsd.