[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Big Endian]

>On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:38:03PM -0400, Big Endian wrote:
>>  >When you push linux/intel to the limits you push it righ off the table.
>>
>>  Ditto here.  I had a *PAIR* of IBM 4000R netfinities.  Dual 750 p3,
>>  gig ram, dual 9 gig scsi, the works.  These the best os for intel
>>  systems (freebsd) and postfix.  A *SINGLE* sun AXi @ 300mhz sends
>>  more messages with 1/100 of the system load.  Raw clock !=
>
>Not to nitpick here, but how did you measure the system load?

Umm.  Just the system load averages, the number of forked off smtpd processes.

>  > performance.  It honestly depends on what you're doing.  Also
>>  price/performance of used Sun/SGI gear blows even brand new PC gear
>>  out of the water for I/O bound tasks.



>Absolutely.  If IRIX was as secure out of the box as OpenBSD, I would
>have nothing but SGI stuff.

I like solaris/sparc for a lot of stuff just because its more 
plentiful and easier to deal w/ when things break.  But NOTHING beats 
an SGI on the desktop.

>And if OpenOffice were available for IRIX, I wouldn't be getting ready
>to sell my SGI Indigo2 <snif> .

I can try to build a binary for you.  Contact me off list and we'll chat.

daniel
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