From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 19 15:01:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E99616A41F for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:01:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC5E43D45 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:01:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1EdUDD-000ICh-Ul; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:01:08 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <64B3924A-3A8B-4198-8F18-2C561DED5AA2@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:01:07 -0700 To: Free BSD Questions list X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: kayo.granillo@sun.com Subject: Re: Solaris patches and Solaris Express X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:01:09 -0000 On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:02 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> Indeed. But this is not Solaris 10 - thats when all of this changed. >> > > I never understood why anyone would go to Solaris 10 unless they had a > 64 bit processor and compiled all their apps under a 64 bit compiler. > Sun > didn't either, which is why they originally didn't come out with a > Solaris x86 > version of Solaris 10 They only came out with it after much > screaming. I run it (Solaris 10) on a dual Athlon 2800+ MP box. As a server. No X-Windows. To run java. And it runs java better than the same box did with Linux and the sun jvm. Before I had a disk failure that the software based raid did not handle well, it was running Linux. After I upgraded to an LSI RAID card I went to Solaris 10. Same HW. And there is no disk IO except for incidental system stuff since the java apps themselves are nfs mounted from a FreeBSD box and the databases are all on other machines. So the LSI HW card (only used to do mirroring of the system for reliability) has no advantage over the standard highpoint chipset and software raid that was on the linux box and is not the foundation of the performance differences. So Solaris 10 on 32bit x86 works well for non desktop needs. It works better on the 64bit chips of course :-) but you use what you have... Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net