Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 07 October 2005 08:06 pm, S Destika wrote:
> > It's common knowledge for any technical person that Linux is faster than
> > Solaris. Till Solaris 10 the gap in performance was _huge_. I speak this
> > from realworld experience. But people who have used Solaris 10 claim it has
> > gotten a lot better.
>
> This statement is so wrong, since you give nothing to back it up. For
> instance, are you talking about the Linux 2.0.xx kernel? Linux 2.2.xx kernel?
>
> Linux 2.4.xx kernel? Linux 2.6.xx kernel? And how do you calculate speed? Is
> it on a system with 80% load, or 5% load. Everything is relative.
When I upgraded www.berlios.de from Linux-2.4 to Solaris 9 2 years ago, the
machine (a dual 1 GHz Xeon) did come up with nearly twice the performance
after it did run Solaris 9.
So from a real world perspective, I cannot see that Solaris _was_ even slower
than Linux before Solaris 10 came out.
Jörg
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