Just to let you know: The backend in this case is a Sun F6800 w/ 12 cpu, 12 GB RAM running Sol8. When I get a chance I'm thinking of a fronted box with each of the OS platforms hitting the backend. (all of this in my spare time, LOL) --Phil
-----Original Message----- From: AOLserver Discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francesco P. Lovergine Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] A slight change of subject...... On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:32:32AM -0400, Dossy wrote: > > Comparing Solaris on SPARC to either Win32 or Linux on x86 isn't > really a fair comparison since the architectures are quite different > -- a low-end Linux box may well outperform a low-end SPARC box (think: > Celeron vs. Ultra2, etc.) but the clock speeds of the CPUs are way > different: a 900 MHz Celeron can be had for pennies while a 450 MHz > CPU for an Ultra2 is considered fast. A cheap Ultra1 will likely have > a 170 MHz CPU, but still probably perform as well as that 900 MHz > Celeron x86. Or, maybe not -- I haven't actually done or seen actual > benchmarks. > Oh well, comparing a Linux/SPARC with a Solaris/SPARC on the same boxi _does_ have sense. I'm quite sure that a Linux with 2.6 kernel should perform better than Solaris. I suspect the same could be also with 2.4, but I'm not so sure, due to multi-threading architecture of aolserver. The same comparison could be done for Linux/x86 vs Solaris/x86. But I'm also quite sure who is the winner. Slowlaris is very sloooow on x86. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
