[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[Roger Walkup]

Dave McGuire wrote:

>   That explains it.  I know I'm treading on thin ice here...and let me
> state that, while I primarily am a BSD hack, I do have several Linux
> boxes and I love them all dearly...but many people have found that
> Linux performs a bit poorly on sun4c-architecture machines
> (sparcstation1, 1+, 2, IPC, IPX, SLC, ELC).  For much, much better
> than 486/anything performance from an IPX, I'd suggest moving to one
> of the BSDs...NetBSD or OpenBSD will run fine on the IPX.
>
>   I'm not trying to start a flame war, I'm not an anti-Linux person,
> blah blah blah...I've just run a *lot* of hardware in a lot of
> different places and I've seen big differences in performance.  Linux
> is famous for wringing amazing amounts of performance out of even the
> lowest-end Intel box...this is not so on smaller sparcstations.
>
>          -Dave McGuire
>

Linux was created (AFAIK) on and for intel; the sparc port is just for us
wackadoos.