Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:38:16 -0700 From: Joshua Lokken <joshua@twobirds.us> To: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> Cc: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com> Subject: Re: comparison to solaris9 Message-ID: <20040425203816.GA75463@freebsd.jolok.org> In-Reply-To: <66946658-96F2-11D8-8BE8-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> References: <6.1.0.6.2.20040425074131.00bd1f68@cheyenne.wixb.com> <20040425184940.GC69011@freebsd.jolok.org> <66946658-96F2-11D8-8BE8-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com>
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* Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> [2004-04-25 12:56]:
> >I had never seen the nickname 'Slowlaris' before that, but I came to
> >appreciate it ;)
>
> Solaris advocates used to say that it was slow on uniprocessor systems.
> I think freebsd 5.2.1 through that out the window. (because of SMP
> kernels)
>
> I haven't used solaris 9 x86, but i have seen *bsd vs solaris 7 and 8
> on x86 hardware. Solaris is a tad bit slow. In fact, its not just
> ia32 hardware. I had an old sparc that came with solaris and i put
> NetBSD on it. NetBSD was easily twice as fast. (not sparc64) It was
I have had the same experience there, too, with an SS5. It runs Solaris
*very* slowly, but with NetBSD (which it's running now) it's a nice
little desktop machine (if only I could get X to display in more than
8-bit color depth.)
--
Joshua
"Don't worry; your wife's virtue will remain as
untouched as Bill Gates' weight room!"
-- Artie Ziff
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