[rescue] intel vs. sun- for real

[Koyote]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:04:45AM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:

> 
> You are aware of the performance considerations of the A1k vs JBOD
> configs, correct?  Will this be read-mostly or read-write?

everyone except the 2 admins will only have RO access, and writing will only occur for relatively (maybe once a week) updates to some data. (like maybe a new CD image getting copied.)


> 
> From what you've mentioned, it seems like overall system performance will
> not be a significant concern with reasonably modern hardware.
> 
> There are two distinct issues here, Sparc vs x86 and Solaris vs Linux.
> Both x86 and Sparc will probably serve you equally well here.

They will both serve- Unless there's a decent growth spurt, or a (this is possible) heavier http load in the future. the future website load concenrs are the main reason the whole thing came up.
>

> Solaris has a more mature (by far) NFS implementation, more mature and
> featureful filesystem options, and in my opinion a better IP stack than
> Linux.  Kernel threading is considerably more pervasive.

I did mention the NFS issues, specifically.


> 
> Is there a particular reason that Solaris x86 is not a consideration?
> Provided you can feed it useful hardware, it's quite a nice performer.


Lifetime, mostly. I don't think it's advisable to plan your future on an end of lifed OS :)

thanks!
-C