Re: Upgrading to Solaris 9

Sounds like an opportunity for someone at Sun to fund a
little research project. Any Sun/Postgresql hackers out
there? Any Sun project managers lurking out there?

Ray

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:37:03PM -0500, Greg Spiegelberg wrote:
> I did and had too many problems and performance issues. Solaris-
> PostgreSQL just doesn't gel as wel as Linux-PostgreSQL. (ouch)
>
> If PostgreSQL were to get retooled to work with threads the way it
> works between processes today for Solaris or if someone were to find
> a tweak to make the Solaris scheduler more process-centric than
> thread-centric (maybe via dispadmin(1)?) then I'm sure Solaris-PG would
> clobber Linux-PG.
>
> I still spin up 7.3.3 on our Sun V480 4CPU, 8GB, 2 internal fibre
> drives occasionally and our 7.3.3 on RedHat 7.3 with 2.4.20, 2 1.4GHz,
> 2GB memory and 2 internal U160 kills it. I've tried the many options
> for UFS and VxFS and EXT3 on Linux still beats it. The database I use
> on the Sun comes from a pg_dump on the Linux system.
>
> But, IMHO Solaris 8 or 9 in comparison to Linux on like hardware,
> databases, configurations and queries the latter will outperform the
> former every time. -= IMHO =-
>
> The short answer to your question is yes, it will run on Solaris 9.
>
> Greg
>
>
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >Danielle Cossette writes:
> >
> >
> >>Could you please let me know if Postgres 7.1.3 will run on Solaris 9.
> >
> >
> >Why don't you try it out?
> >
>
>
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