Re: Solaris performance

Err yes...

I said "faster than any Intel I have access to...", I should have said
that the fastest Intel I actually had access to was 2xPIII 500Mhz
running vanilla RedHat 7.1 !

The product I used for testing was DB2 7.2 (which in hindsight may not
be the fairest, as I am told that Solaris is regarded as "one of the
best" DB2 platforms - which I guess may mean "has had a lot of tuning
work done on"...)

With respect to the point I think you are working towards... I would
completely agree... if you can run everything you need on Intel + Linux,
with no performance loss - then dumping Solaris seems like a good idea,
as the cost-effectiveness of Intel vs Sparc cannot be doubted.

(and if your getting performance gains to boot, sounds like a winner to
me)

best wishes

Mark

>On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 21:43, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> Mark you said Solaris 2x450 E220R is generally much faster than any intel.
> Well we are running a jboss 2.4.3/PostgreSQL7.1.2 on a
>
> a) Linux 2.4.7 on a pentium iii 1GHz, 256 KB cache, 1Gb main mem with cheap
> ide disks for development and on a
> b) Solaris 8 Generic_108528-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80, 2x450 MHz,
> 4Mb cache, 4Gb main mem, with EMC raid arrays
>
> In every test, (awk, gwak, gcc compiled programs, dd tests on both local
> scsi/ide, long postgres queries, java ejbs, java servlets) solaris performs
> slower at least 2 times than linux.
>
> Can you point me with an app that Solaris performs better??
> Thanks for any clue, cause we are about to drop solaris and its cost
> for good.
>
> Achilleus Mantzios
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