On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Volker A. Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I have a quite old machine with an AMD Athlon 900MHz with 640Mb of RAM > > > serving up NFS, WebDAV locally to my house and running my webserver > (Apache) > > > in a Zone. For me performance is perfectly acceptable, but this isn't > an > > > interactive desktop. Not only is performance acceptable when I moved > all > > > the data (photos, etc) off the internal disk of my (PPC) Mac Mini to > the > > > NFSv3 accessed ZFS system things on the mac actually got faster. > > > > > > But surely I could afford to by a machine with 4gb of RAM after all it > is > > > only US$50 right ? Yes I could but why should I need to buy more > hardware > > > when I can use what I already have and not fill up more land file with > non > > > RoHS components (most of this machine, everything other than the CPU > fan is > > > more than 5 years old). > > > > GREAT point. Sun shouldn't innovate in software if it doesn't run well > on > > hardware that should've been thrown away years ago. > > You are comparing apples with oranges here. The point is not to > change software to accommodate obsolete hardware. The point is to > optimize existing hardware and modern software. The money is better > spent on more RAM than on another CPU/SATA HBA/whatever, in this > particular use case. You apparently didn't read the post I was responding to then. He's talking about someone unable to afford $50, and 8+ year old cpu's and motherboards. That is most definitely obsolete hardware. > > > I don't know ANYONE running around > > claiming Solaris is the OS to beat on extremely slow hardware with > extremely > > minimal hardware specs. That isn't its target market and never will be. > > THIS IS AN ENTERPRISE OS! > > Wrong. OpenSolaris is certainly not an Enterprise OS. It might > become one when it is passed the torch from Solaris 10. "SOLARIS" is an enterprise operating system. "OpenSolaris" is the testbed for Solaris. If you're going to sit there with a straight face and try to argue with me that OpenSolaris is not geared toward the enterprise, this discussion is a lost cause. Crossbow, honeycomb, COMSTAR, HA Clusters... those are most definitely projects aimed at your average home user. > > > I don't expect the programmers at Sun or anywhere else to write their > code > > for hardware that's 10 years old, or stifle innovation based on that > idea. > > If that's the sort of project you're looking for I think you've stumbled > > onto the wrong mailing list. > > I think you just have made a fool of yourself. :-) > I think you've just done the same. You either didn't read the previous post, or entirely failed to understand what I was saying.
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