Subj : *BSD
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Francois Thunus
Date : Wed Jun 20 2001 01:35 pm

 Hello !

20 Jun 01 01:05, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Russell Tiedt:

 RJT> I'm still at a bit of a loss as to why I might want to even ocnsider
 RJT> Solaris or any of the other traditional unices out there.  There are
 RJT> probably several I could get a hold of if I wanted to...

Well, since I work almost every day on a SunOS 5.2 which lives on a 
solaris/sparc machine, I can tell you why: it remains up.
I have seen Linux machines grinding to a halt under the load (ever seen top 
reporting a charge of 32 ?), but the solaris machine NEVER. My only gripe with 
solaris is the price of the hardware. To give you an idea, one of the solaris 
machine I work on (in production) has 26 processors and 7 gigas of ram. I'll 
let you imagine the price :-)
Now, our customer in that config realized that he could make substantial 
savings by replacing that machine by 6 or 7 quadri processor based on the 
latest intel (whatever it is called this week, I'l say pentium+++ for the sake 
of easyness) and balancing the load with some queing system like NQS.

The only thing that has to be done before anything else is to compile and 
install bash instead of their dreadful default korn shell :-)


 Francois Thunus

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