Gente de la lista me ha preguntado un par de veces que ventajas entre Sparc sobre Intel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Siddhartha Jain Hi, While going thru' this : http://www.grex.org/staffnote/about.html, i found this -----snip---------- Sun's servers have "hardware contexts" where the states of many different running jobs can be stored in the processor, so that the processor can jump almost instantaneously between them. Pentium systems have only one hardware context - whatever is being run at the moment. Our previous computer, a Sun 4/260, had 16 hardware contexts. The Sun 4/670 (with the SM100 processors that we have) supports 4,096 hardware contexts in each processor. Features like this mean that the 4/670 can deliver a lot better performance in our application than you'd expect from four 40 MHz processors. -------snip--------------- The newer UltraSparc-II and III support 8192 hardware contexts. My question is do Pentium (III or IV) have such a feature? If not, does it give UltraSparc a big advantage over Pentiums when running lots of processes (like oracle or Apache) since there is frequent context switching involved. TIA, Siddhartha Jain Sr. Systems Engineer Netmagic Solutions Pvt. Ltd www.netmagicsolutions.com ---- Fin. Ouch, no? -- Alvaro Figueroa C. I'm the root Universidad Latina de CR and you're the hood Departamento de Computo I have other souls in my hands -- �Desea desuscribirse? Escriba a [EMAIL PROTECTED] con el tema "unsubscribe".
