[SunRescue] Off Topic: Rescuing my Sun

[Ken Caruso]

Heh, as you are all talking about this, I have been compiling X-chat,
mozzila and nmap simultaneously in X on my sparc2(netbsd) and its
incredible how responsive it is, if I couldnt hear the disk grinding I
swear its bearly breaking a sweat. Although in my case the bottleneck
would be the 10base5 :)

Ken Caruso

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:16:29AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   I've said it before, and I'll say it again.  Never understimate a
> > Sparc2.  Unless you've got a clearchannel DS3 to your facility, the
> > bottleneck will always be the connectivity.
> 
> Properly optimized and trimmed down, even Solaris 2.5/2.6 on a 
> sun4c can serve some kickass web sites and email (esp. when using
> postfix for mail...)
> 
> Bill
> 
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