Re: [PERFORM] OS desicion

2004-10-21 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:38:51AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Tom, > > > You are asking the wrong question. The best OS is the OS you (and/or > > the customer) knows and can administer competently. > > I'll have to 2nd this. I'll 3rd but add one tidbit: FreeBSD will schedule disk I/O based

Re: [PERFORM] OS desicion

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Clark
The real performance differences between unices are so small as to be ignorable in this context. <> Well, at least the difference between Linux and BSD. There are substantial tradeoffs should you chose to use Solaris or UnixWare. Yes, quite right, I should have said 'po

Re: [PERFORM] OS desicion

2004-10-20 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > You are asking the wrong question. The best OS is the OS you (and/or > the customer) knows and can administer competently. I'll have to 2nd this. > The real > performance differences between unices are so small as to be ignorable > in this context. Well, at least the difference bet

Re: [PERFORM] OS desicion

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Clark
You are asking the wrong question. The best OS is the OS you (and/or the customer) knows and can administer competently. The real performance differences between unices are so small as to be ignorable in this context. The context switching bug is not OS-dependent, but varys in severity acro