[geeks] Solaris 9/x86 Performance

[Bill Bradford]

Go with a stripped-down RedHat 8.x (base OS, compiler, etc), and then
build the basic stuff (BIND, CVS, etc) up from source.

Bill

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:27:43AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> I'm contemplating a recommendation that $work move to Solaris/x86 for
> a dozen or so machines (CVS, DNS, DHCP, and other small services).
> Currently, there are three machines, one is running Windows 2000, one
> DeadRat Linux 7.x, and one FreeBSD 4.x.  Since we've got a handful of
> SPARCs doing other things, Solaris would help keep the number of OSes
> I have to support down to a minimum.  Solaris also sounds like a good
> idea because OpenBSD doesn't support SMP, NetBSD's SMP support is very
> green, and I don't like FreeBSD well enough to want to support 12
> machines of it.
> 
> I'd recommend Linux, but I manglement will insist on running DeadRat
> (since they've already "bought a license" for it), and I'd rather run
> Windows than that.
> 
> However, I'm leery of Solaris 9/x86.  Some of these machines are
> "lowly" dual Pentium PRO machines, and the last time I installed
> Solaris 7 on a dual Pentium PRO machine, the result was something even
> -less- responsive than 2.6 on a SPARCstation 1+.
> 
> Has the performance gotten any better?
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Patschke  *)  "everything i know about animals i learned from
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bill bradford
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