[SunRescue] (Help!) Problems with Solaris 8 and SPARCServer 1000E?

[Peter L. Wargo]

> One would expect the bloat to slow it down.  Of course if you disable
> all unnecessary stuff in /etc/rc2.d, rc3.d/inittab,inetd.conf then 
> they are all pretty much equal configurations.  Is 8 faster than 7?
> 7 than 2.6? 2.6 than 2.5.1? ...  The only radical speed difference I've
> seen is 2.1 is significantly slower than the later versions.
> Has anyone done a quantitative comparison?

My comment would be that a lot of stuff got fixed in 2.4, and that 8 is
probably the best bet.

-Pete