Wording tweaks.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/features.sgml,v 1.30 2007/10/27 18:44:30 rwatson Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "About FreeBSD's Technological Advances">
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multiprocessor servers.</h2>
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<p><b>FreeBSD 7.0</b>, due out in late 2007, brings many new features
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as well as performance advancements. With a special focus on storage
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and performance enhancements. With a special focus on storage
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and multiprocessing performance, FreeBSD 7.0 will ship with support
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for Sun's <b>ZFS file system</b> and <b>highly scalable
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multiprocessing performance</b>. Benchmarks have shown that FreeBSD
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systems on 8-core servers.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><b>SMPng</b>: After seven year's of development on advanced SMP
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support, FreeBSD 7.0 realized the goals of a fine-grained kernel
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<li><b>SMPng</b>: After seven years of development on advanced SMP
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support, FreeBSD 7.0 realizes the goals of a fine-grained kernel
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allowing linear scalability to over 8 CPU cores for many workloads.
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FreeBSD 7.0 sees an almost complete elimination of the Giant Lock,
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removing it from the CAM storage layer and NFS client, moving
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removing it from the CAM storage layer and NFS client, and moving
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towards more fine-grained locking in the network subsystem.
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Significant work has also been performed to optimize kernel
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scheduling and locking primitives, and the optional ULE scheduler
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allows thread CPU affinity and per-CPU run queues to reduce
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overhead and increase cache-friendliness. Benchmarks reveal a
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dramatic performance advantage over other &unix; operating systems
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on identical multicore hardware, and reflect a long investment in
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new SMP technology for the FreeBSD kernel.</li>
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overhead and increase cache-friendliness. The libthr threading
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package, providing 1:1 threading, is now the default. Benchmarks
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reveal a dramatic performance advantage over other &unix; operating
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systems on identical multicore hardware, and reflect a long
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investment in SMP technology for the FreeBSD kernel.</li>
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<li><b>ZFS filesystem</b>: Sun's ZFS is a state-of-the-art file
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system offering simple administration, transactional semantics,
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