Subj : *BSD
To   : Francois Thunus
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Sun Jun 24 2001 12:15 am

Hi Francois.

20-Jun-01 20:35:01, Francois Thunus wrote to Roy J. Tellason


 FT> Hello !

 FT> 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
 RJT>> ocnsider Solaris or any of the other traditional unices out
 RJT>> there.  There are probably several I could get a hold of if I
 RJT>> wanted to...

 FT> Well, since I work almost every day on a SunOS 5.2 which lives on
 FT> a solaris/sparc machine, I can tell you why: it remains up I have
 FT> seen Linux machines grinding to a halt under the load (ever seen
 FT> top reporting a charge of 32 ?), but the solaris machine NEVER. My
 FT> only gripe with solaris is the price of the hardware. To give you
 FT> an idea, one of the solaris machine I work on (in production) has
 FT> 26 processors and 7 gigas of ram.

 26 processors - not surprising a load of 32 isn't worrying it then.
 IIRC that'd be like a load of 1.23 on a single processor.

 FT> Now, our customer in that config realized that he could make
 FT> substantial savings by replacing that machine by 6 or 7 quadri
 FT> processor based on the latest intel (whatever it is called this
 FT> week, I'l say pentium+++ for the sake of easyness) and balancing
 FT> the load with some queing system like NQS

 -=> Bye <=-

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