On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:25:02PM -0800, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote: > > >BTW, the Opteron is about 10-times faster on a single job than > >the SPARC, which is vintage 1996. > > That's a bit of an unfair comparison. > > The point of that Sparc machine is throughput, not latency. > > Rattle the disks a little on that Pea Sea and the system performance > turns to crud.
I confess to not being _entirely_ sure what you mean here.. may be terminology, or may be lack of familiarity with the hardware. My perception is that you're talking about a similar situation that I see with mainframes. They can do a tremendous amount of work (lots of transactions), but if you happen to have a linux partition, you can forget about trying to run X (so I'm told). This is something of a paradox... never made any sense to me. Wade syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
