One correction -- the IBM x335 has 2GHz Xeons, NOT 3GHz!
- Matt
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> Of Matthew Goheen
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:37 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [rt-users] Some little performance notes...
>
> During our latest upgrade, we were trying to determine which platform to
> install
> RT on. We had three basic choices:
> o Install on our Sun V440 server (main production file server, 4 SPARC
> CPUs)
> o Install on a NEW Sunfire X2200 server (dual Athlon CPUs) running
> Solaris 10
> o Install on same X2200 running RHEL 5
>
> We did some very basic tests. We installed RT 3.6.4 on the V440 (also
> Solaris 10)
> and tried the X2200 under both Solaris 10 and RHEL 5. All machines ran
> Postgres
> (I believe they were all Postgres 8.1 -- but we used whatever came with the
> standard install).
>
> Our existing RT machines was an IBM x335 (dual Xeon 3GHz) running RT 3.4.2
> under
> RHEL 3.
>
> In a nutshell, we found:
> o The V440 was about 3-4 times slower than our our existing machine
> o The X2200 running Solaris was marginally faster than our existing
> machine
> o The X2200 running RHEL 5 was about three times faster than our
> existing machine
>
> We went with RHEL 5.
>
> We did not spend any time trying to figure out WHY Solaris 10 was so slow.
> We did
> notice that times under Solaris would vary quite a bit, even repeating the
> same
> search (this was not the case under Linux).
>
> Matt Goheen
> University of Rochester
> Laboratory for Laser Energetics
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