Larry, assuming your environment configuration is fine (please see Allaire
KB Article 11772 and 11773), and you're doing a straight comparison of NT
and Solaris, there are a few things to be aware of:
First, there are hardware platform differences.
In our labs, we've verified that a comparable Sun machine (2-way E220R,
450MHz, 512MB RAM, compared against an Intel machine: Compaq 1850R, 2-way,
500MHz, 512MB RAM) is about 38% slower than the Intel machine, using ZDLabs'
ServerBench 4.1 CPU Suite, taking Allaire products out of the picture. This
was somewhat unexpected, given the general consensus out there regarding the
Sun platform. You generally get better platform stability, but not
necessarily better performance than comparable Intel hardware. Feel free to
download the suite from ZDLabs and try the CPU benchmark on your hardware.
Second, we've made significant strides on the performance, SMP scalability
and stability fronts in CF Solaris 451 SP1. SP1 is not yet final, but the
Alpha is available from http://beta.allaire.com. You should experience a
significant improvment in performance, scalability and stability in SP1.
Several customers are running on the Alpha with very positive results.
Even with the platform differences, we have reports of performance and
scalability on Sun hardware meeting and exceeding those of CF NT 451
platform: a fairly significant gain.
If you have not already, I would encourage you to carefully review the two
KB articles above for environmental tunings you can make, and sign up for
the CF Solaris 451 SP1 beta porgram. If you have issues with CF Solaris 451
SP1, please post them to the Beta Forums at http://beta.allaire.com.
Thanks
Damon Cooper
Enterprise Lab Manager
Allaire
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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 05:17:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Larry W. Virden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CF Solaris 4.51 SP1 Alpha
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm not certain what the specific patch levels are of the Solaris 4.51
version we're currently working with, but it is really a pain.
Crashes, cfschedule not going off and not reporting why, etc. on a
regular basis. So far, Allaire support has had no success in pinning down
the problems.
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Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
Larry W. Virden <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:
http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/>
Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should
be construed as representing my employer's opinions.
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