> > Dog slow as compared to what? > > As compared to commodity server-class Linux/Intel hardware (which will > cost you around 1/4 to 1/3 what the "equivalent" Solaris rig does). > > > I would prefer to do the absolute > > minimum in terms of tuning. Most of my experience with Zope and > > otherwise is with Windows. Can I potentially get by just installing > > and running? How would it run that way on a current Solaris server > > with appropriate memory compared to say running on a P4 3meg Win2003 > > machine with appropriate memory. > > Let's put it this way: even if you get paid in cheese sandwiches, it > will be cheaper to buy a 1U lintel box to run the server than the time > you spend trying to figure out why it is so slow on Solaris, let alone > the time you spend trying to remediate it. Unless somebody has a gun to > your head, you should not run Zope on Solaris in *any* > performance-critical environment. > > FWIW, I offered once to *buy* the 1U for the client if it didn't smoke > their big-iron Solaris box; they declined to take me up on it (but > still went ahead and used Solaris, because that was what made the SAs > feel warm-n-fuzzy). > > Matt Hamilton's report is still probably your best resource if you find > yourself with the gun to your head: > > http://www.zope.org/Members/glpb/solaris
OK -- I get the picture I think ;-) I will try to dodge the Solaris bullet if I can. _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )