From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Apr 8 03:15:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA28251 for emulation-outgoing; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 03:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xroads.vthrc.uq.edu.au (0@xroads.vthrc.uq.edu.au [130.102.4.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA28116 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 03:15:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fwtk@localhost) by xroads.vthrc.uq.edu.au (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA13344 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 20:14:45 +1000 (EST) Received: from arundel.vthrc.uq.edu.au(130.102.4.21) by xroads.vthrc.uq.edu.au via smap (V1.3) id sma013341; Tue Apr 8 20:14:23 1997 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 20:14:22 +1000 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org From: D.Thomas@vthrc.uq.edu.au (Danny Thomas) Subject: SCO emulation Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was going to post this to questions since it's not really a technical question, but a quick look at the web-site showed no mention of SCO emulation. Is that the case or did I miss it ? in case SCO emulation does exist, my real question follows howdie, our library has got a serious problem with the client-server system it uses to provide campus-wide access to databases, mostly off CDROM. Currently they are running the SCO version of ERL (www.silverplatter.com) which doesn't seem to handle the increasing load very well. The library people don't have much unix experience, but at the direction of the ERL distributors have tweaked various OS parameters to no avail. Of course the problem could be within ERL, but I'm wondering whether it's worth their while trying to run the server software on another UNIX offering SCO emulation. In the first instance of trying to interest the library enough to explore this possibility, I'm trying to convey that UNIX emulation doesn't bear the overheads or complexity of projects like WINE, WABI, SoftPC, etc. I'm looking for informed comments on whether SCO emulation 1) is likely to work, ie what might cause problems 2) whether running under FreeBSD is likely to cope better with the load. Is SCO known to poorly cope with various definitions of "heavy load" ? This is a serious immediate issue for the library, but the ERL distributors haven't been able to say that throwing extra money at the servers will improve the situation. SilverPlatter are also developing Linux & NT versions of the server, but the situation needs to be fixed now. cheers, Danny Thomas