Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:38:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Joerg B. Micheel" <joerg@begemot.org> Cc: "Steven M. Schultz" <sms@moe.2bsd.com>, pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8 Message-ID: <20000127153820.T53307@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000127180406.A574@begemot.org> References: <200001270142.RAA00523@moe.2bsd.com> <20000127145602.P53307@freebie.lemis.com> <20000127180406.A574@begemot.org>
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On Thursday, 27 January 2000 at 18:04:06 +1300, Joerg Micheel wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 02:56:02PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 26 January 2000 at 17:42:54 -0800, Steven M. Schultz wrote: >>>> From: "Joerg B. Micheel" <joerg@begemot.org> >>>> I think, popularity of Solaris might rather be restricted by its >>>> performance. I have run Solaris x86 on my desktop for a while for >>> >>> Agreed. I have run Solaris (only up thru 2.6 though) in its >>> "native" environment (Sun hardware) and even there the performance >>> is not anything one would write home about. The difference between >>> SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.x is dramatic in favor on the older leaner >>> system. >> >> That's my experience too, but it may not be typical. For a large >> system with a large number of processes (e.g. ftp server) the >> comparison could be very different. > > That would make quite an interesting test. How much does > ftp.cdrom.com gain by running FreeBSD instead of Solaris ? Good question. My guess is that Solaris 2 just couldn't handle that many connections, but it compete reasonably well with fewer connections (say 1000). I'll copy the FreeBSD chat people and see what they think. For -chat: Sun have announced their intention to release the source code of Solaris [2.]8. We're discussing what this means. See http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/source/ for more details. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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