Sony Proposes A New Soft Watchdog For Linux

[tildearrow]

They're not parasites. Don't you know bsd only exists to serve? If someone have something against using it with the spirit of its servant license then blame the license.

Man, you're taking the slogan too literally.

[pomac]

So, quick check on linked in states Sony mobile, Lund... Sony Mobile doesn't really exist in Lund - it's sony Nordic now - so think TV, stereos etc etc

[trasz]

#3 (Free)BSD while being impressive in how it's managing to stay alive give how little backing it has, is years behind in both hardware and software support. Only in FBSD13 did they implement Intels HWP (aka speedshift aka let's not control the CPU speed via ACPI).

Before SpeedShift there was SpeedStep. It's been supported on FreeBSD since... ages, not sure how long exactly. Also, the hardware support goes both ways. I remember Linux having a huge problem with supporting TOE hardware, due to some Linux maintainer somehow now believing they exist, or not understanding how they work, or both. Has it been fixed?

Generally speaking, apart from "deep embedded", WiFi, and some exotic stuff that never took off, the hardware support in FreeBSD and Linux is pretty similar.

[Quackdoc]

OOM is a singular example of something it can do, Interesting, seeing lots of people say its from sony mobile, Wonder what they want it for though?

[BlueCrayon]

#1 This patch is from sony mobile, not SCE.
#2 Anyone who talks about SCE being a big player in BSD has no idea what they're talking about. The average game developer never touches the BSD APIs on Playstation. Sone likewise never upstreams anything that isn't strict kernel security
#3 (Free)BSD while being impressive in how it's managing to stay alive give how little backing it has, is years behind in both hardware and software support. Only in FBSD13 did they implement Intels HWP (aka speedshift aka let's not control the CPU speed via ACPI). Take a look at pfsense/opnsense hardware recomendation - their routing/firewalling is strictly single-thread. Linux now runs circles around BSD in networking performance, and that's just one example.
#4 The biggest commercial player in FreeBSD is Netflix, iX and Netgate being a distant second

[trasz]

I can understand Linux fanboys, it's kind of sad that all attempts at building Linux gaming console failed.

[Volta]

They are BSD parasites, I wonder what they want. They are losing Android marketshare.

They're not parasites. Don't you know bsd only exists to serve? If someone have something against using it with the spirit of its servant license then blame the license.

[Volta]

Interesting that Sony would propose something like this. I thought they were using BSD rather than Linux.

It seems they realized there's no future with bsd and they don't want to waste resources on keeping it up to date with modern standards and stacks.

[Volta]

#1 I'm for this in principle. Of course the devil is in the details.

#2 Bag off with your BSD bigotry. I'll take BSD and their more sane, less fragmented, more permissive style of development than MacOS or Windows any day. Just because they don't fellate Linus or Stallman is ok by me. Most of your banking, video streaming and gaming is because of BSD. They're the rightful heirs of Unix. I'm glad to have them around for friendly competition and the sharing of good engineering principles with Linux. And if I were running my own company you better believe that although I would run my front office and DevOps on Ubuntu, I'd run my servers on BSD.

Most of the servers and services run on Linux (and Windows in big part), so your bsd fanboism has no place in reality. They're niche and bsd only exists thanks to 'stolen' ZFS. That's all. BSD in banking? Good joke!

[MadeUpName]

This soft watchdog can also work standalone to take action itself in out-of-memory situations to kill processes.

Isn't that what OOMD which is already running on my system does?