[SunRescue] Solaris on older Sparc boxes

[Michael C. Vergallen]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, David Rouse wrote:

> Every so often I'll hear people say, when talking about older Sun boxes, 
> that you don't want to run Solaris on that, it will be too slow.
> 
> Without starting a war (really!): slow in what sense?
> 
> I've got Solaris 2.7 running on an IPX (no X Windows) and a Sparc 10 (X 
> Windows, GX framebuffer and 128 MB of RAM) at home and both seem fairly 
> responsive. I haven't loaded any monsters like Netscape yet, but so far 
> with admin tasks using Xterms, the file editor, and file manager in Open 
> Windows the Sparc 10 doesn't come off too bad against the (early model) 
> U5 I use at work.
> 
> Note -- I'm not doubting anyone's word, it would just be interesting to 
> know in what areas Solaris would be slower on an older machine and why.
I have a bunch of older machines here and they all do run with Solaris
however I have found that as workstation anything below a Sparc 10
dousn't cut it...becuase of the slow graphics and the fact that Sun
software needs quite a bit of memory. As servers the old machines have a
decent output.  
> 
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> David Rouse
> Network Manager
> Goldsboro News-Argus
> 
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