[SunRescue] Re: Recommend starter Sun?

[Gregory Leblanc]

On 21 Mar 2001 19:42:56 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On March 21, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > SS/10s are not well-suited for 4-way SMP, IMHO. They can do it, and they can be useful, but you will spend an awful lot on CPUs that will always seem slow when you work on an Intel box of recent vintage.
> 
>   ...until you try to do more than one thing at a time on that Intel
> box.  I like the ability to, i.e., run more than one compile
> simultaneously without performance going into the toilet.  I've never
> seen an Intel/Unix box that could handle that.

Just 1 thing to say here...  vmware.  I use it for my compiles, partly
because I package software, and I want a clean build host, and partly
because it does a wonderful job of "niceing" things so that performance
is still reasonable.  I haven't tried it with SMP just yet, but I've
heard that it does even better on SMP boxen. 

    Greg