From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 11 19:18:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B6D1065679 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:18:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royce.williams@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f197.google.com (mail-yw0-f197.google.com [209.85.211.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652508FC14 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:18:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh35 with SMTP id 35so12552104ywh.7 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:18:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=Oa1B+bFVySMRmyRTtVWugFSk0JnXvT5HGKQb8YhbDUM=; b=Fu+IuDtUm9vXLRyJdkAWyjUDZemi+NA8cThOd88nZ//goxxsbSH7HRXY+quU7IKDtS 7+kZKHAJgOdkdbypVXGfte+VNxWlKj7iHW7abNngLL3oDXYxBt/0LcrGZSa/ymz3StLH 4W5RIIS5sGXvTLO+snj91u5GTu79+1q+YI7cc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=TkUEkOjZyEhEIZ8jy+zQYRRAJzFzH/1t2iCOXoHJxoMVSIrP8tktfaW8S3jci3ZORt 1R6h5cQVaJqgRPDxzxuUfsBsexbR8V9yd84TxO+9aLyEAlPIp0cdo122zIF0YM3eKpih tbWZyEdB7uS67cb/P3dMyT64B6VFF63YrnUEU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.131.2 with SMTP id i2mr2459008ybn.56.1263236196094; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:56:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B4B6E37.3050005@netscape.net> References: <4B4A6FA5.1010002@netscape.net> <4B4B6E37.3050005@netscape.net> From: Royce Williams Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:56:16 -0900 Message-ID: <9dd082311001111056j1ca3afb4le14ba84270fb730@mail.gmail.com> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: Newbie to FreeBSD on SPARC - questions about Sun hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:18:45 -0000 On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: > is this list online or dead? > > Sorry am just not used to a mailing list being this quiet! Usually within a > few minutes or hours of signing up someone has posted something to the list > (not meaning response to what I ask but just in a generic sense). I'm mostly a lurker on this list, but I'd say that the silence was because your message had multiple sections, and some of the questions were non-trivial to answer. :-) Your summary was helpful: > [...] how does the performance of FreeBSD on SPARC compare > with running Solaris on the same platform/architecture?? .. but you also said that you were interested in the difference between SPARC and x86. There are many, many variables underneath the answer to these questions. Also, "performance" means different things to different people. I don't know of any broad, publiished benchmarks comparing freebsd/sparc64 and freebsd/i386 performance, but they would be interesting to see. Maybe someone else on the list is in a similar boat, and will chime in here. :-) In my experience, unless you can find others who are already working under similar requirements, the clueful advice I've seen people give is that doing your own testing is the best way to get results that are meaningful to your situation. Royce