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Solaris and Linux benchmarks on Intel

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Brian Seppanen

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May 22, 2002, 7:55:57 AM5/22/02
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I'm looking for a performance comparison of solaris and linux on a
recent intel platform (PIII or PIV). The primary duties of the box
would be to act as a webserver, SQL backend with on the fly image
generation, and snmp management station.

Does anyone have any comparisons of solaris 8 versus a recent linux
distribution? Preferrably on the same hardware.

Has Sun committed to providing solaris 9 for intel or are they still
backing away from the intel platform.

Any info appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian Seppanen
se...@chartermi.net

John D Groenveld

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May 22, 2002, 12:54:49 PM5/22/02
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In article <3CEB874...@chartermi.net>,

Brian Seppanen <se...@chartermi.net> wrote:
>Has Sun committed to providing solaris 9 for intel or are they still
>backing away from the intel platform.
The Linux proponents inside Sun say Solaris x86 is dead.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-912666.html

The Solaris proponents inside Sun say Solaris x86 is still in question
while Sun figures how to reform itself into a company that can actually
make money from a software product.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/05/20/020520hnsolaris9.xml

My wild assed guess is that the Linux proponents will soon be joining
their compatriots @ SGI in the unemployment line.
John
groe...@acm.org

Dave Uhring

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May 22, 2002, 4:25:50 PM5/22/02
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Brian Seppanen wrote:

> Does anyone have any comparisons of solaris 8 versus a recent linux
> distribution? Preferrably on the same hardware.
>

Subjectively, they are more or less the same in performance, both
systems using journalled filesystems - UFS on Solaris and XFS on Linux.
Solaris far outperforms Linux as an NFS server. And no, I'm not going
to run benchmarks.



> Has Sun committed to providing solaris 9 for intel or are they still
> backing away from the intel platform.
>

No and maybe. They have promised free support for 2 more years and
contracted support for an additional 5 years.

Brian Seppanen

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May 23, 2002, 8:59:48 AM5/23/02
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John D Groenveld wrote:


>
> My wild assed guess is that the Linux proponents will soon be joining
> their compatriots @ SGI in the unemployment line.


What you mean is they'll all be taking jobs at sun. :) :)

Thanks for the articles.

Brian Seppanen
se...@chartermi.net


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