Adam Leff said: > The Sun V240 is a 2x1Ghz UltraSparcIIIi running Sol9... I didn't have a > 1.28Ghz box available at the time I was doing the tests. The DL 360 is > a 2x2.8Ghz Xeon. The Proliant is a 2x3.2Ghz Xeon. All with 2 GB of Wow, that's closer than I thought! Mind you, you can get a 2x 3.2GHz/2GB/2x73GB15K machine for a lot less from Dell than from HP/Compaq.
But in the end, I guess when you buy brands, it doesn't seem to matter much in price if you go with Sun or any other. I wonder if these 1GHz Suns also need less juice and stay cooler. Not an unimportant consideration; apperantly Google settled on 1GHz machines for their Ireland data centre for that same reason as they could fit more machines in and thus have more CPU power in total. > RAM. So yes, you could argue that the Proliant results are possible > skewed because of the difference in processor speed. And cache? That 2.8 probably has 512K, the 3.2 likely 1MB, possibly 2. Bas. -- 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.
