andyg;440417 Wrote: > Oh there is some issue with YAML::Syck on Solaris. Search Bugzilla for > it. Not sure yet if it's something we need to change or not.
d'oh! ok good to know. Heh yeah well SPARC servers tend to be slower for single-threaded apps. The CPUs aren't clocked up to be the speed demons the x86 chips are these days. But their RISC architecture combined with a superior kernel scheduler made them great for doing several things simultaneously, even with a heavy system load, while continuing to remain responsive to other processes. Solaris 9 was nothing to write home about. But compared to Solaris 7, Solaris 8 was a giant leap forward. heh that's not saying much I suppose :) These days, though, they have cranked up the speed on the SPARC CPUs. Here's one server we have at work: banner says: Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 Server (2 X dual-core dual-thread SPARC64-VI 2150MHz). System speed is 1012Mhz, each CPU main core shares 5MB L2 cache. It's a beast. It's all about the power of parallelism. Obviously overkill for nearly anything that normal people would need to do with a computer :) But I digress. Another option I'll try is a newer release of Solaris 10 x86. Who knows..maybe there are some obscure conflicts it might solve. -- mbw23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mbw23's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20248 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65565 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
