> If you're using the desktop machine interactively with a graphical
> window manager and the machine is a moderately-loaded Sparc 5, then your
> dbserver performance is probably not going to be very spectacular. Is the
> $7,000 for a Sparc5/64Mb out of the question? An Axil 245 would be even
> cheaper. (This was the ballpark for the last quote I saw).
I'd just like to add that a sparc5's memory management unit only supports
a mere 256 context switches which is a far cry short of the sparc20's
65,536. Performance of a loaded sparc5 in a busy AFS cell running the
database server process suite is going to suffer a great deal more than that
of a similarly loaded sparc20.
Another $.01.
-Steven McElwee
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