Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:03:31 +0200 From: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie to FreeBSD on SPARC - questions about Sun hardware Message-ID: <4B4C2CD3.9090407@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001112314090.56540@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <4B4A6FA5.1010002@netscape.net> <4B4B6E37.3050005@netscape.net> <9dd082311001111056j1ca3afb4le14ba84270fb730@mail.gmail.com> <4B4B7D86.6000502@netscape.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001112314090.56540@ury.york.ac.uk>
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Many thanks guys, I will respond with a prominent reply hopefully within a few hours if not then at around ~17:00 EET time as I have some work to do in the office allocated to me right now. :-) Best regards, Kaya Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Kaya Saman wrote: > >> Actually I am not that much interested in the performance benefits between x86 >> and SPARC; but more between OpenSolaris and FreeBSD on SPARC as I will be >> running either one on a Sun V480 server. >> > > It's quite hard to say with any certainty. I'd personally say that on my > old Ultra 5, Solaris is a little faster, especially for IDE disk access. > On my V480, I can't tell any difference in speed between FreeBSD and > Solaris. However, it's probably very dependent on the exact workload: > something entirely CPU bound or I/O bound probably won't be any faster or > slower whatever the OS is. > > >> The issue I am facing is purely down to software and administration. I mean >> the best example I can provide is that BSD has the packages I want at least >> for x86 which I've seen: that are Cacti, Munin, and awstats (should also be >> there for SPARC too) but then Solaris has zones which allow me to allocate a >> separate virtualized OS contained within the master OS or global zone. BSD on >> the other hand has jails and as from going onto the jails list apparently I >> can actually assign interfaces to various jails which is what I was going to >> do if I used Solaris Zones. >> > > Briefly (and again, personal opinion): > > Solaris Zones win over FreeBSD Jails (but if you're not using the extra > features like resource limiting then there's probably no real difference). > > Solaris hardware monitoring (failed PSU, etc) wins over FreeBSD (I'm not > sure if FreeBSD supports any "fan failed" type stuff) > > FreeBSD ports win over OpenCSW or Blastwave, by a *long* way. > > FreeBSD community wins over Solaris community (I've had a lot of > experience with both!). > > At the end of the day, Solaris is always going to win on the level of > hardware support, but from a day to day management point of view I'd say > FreeBSD and it's ports win hands down. > > Gavin >
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