Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 02:55:52 +0100 From: Walter Hop <freebsd@walter.transip.nl> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Success / New hardware / gem or hme? Message-ID: <3844188062.20031229025552@blue.calx.nl>
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Hi all, this will be my last noisy post, I am mostly done now. :) So far my experience with FreeBSD/sparc64 5.2-RC2 has been wonderful. My congratulations and thanks to the people who have worked on the port! Booting using the ISO and a serial terminal, installation via sysinstall, making FreeBSD, and installing the important ports was a walk in the park. Some more exotic ports segfault or give weird results, but that may also be a 5.2-RC2 issue (have not compared with 5.2-RC2 i386). I also haven't tested the gdb port yet. I also like the Sun Netra T1 AC200 hardware. It has a very good design, and LOM and the drive bays are excellent. Compiling on the UltraSparc IIe/500 is slower than I had expected which is probably due to its small cache, but disk operations are very fast. I especially appreciate the quick reboots! I may consider buying more Sun hardware to run FreeBSD/sparc64. I am looking for a 1U server for a database server where disk I/O is important. Does somebody have any comments on whether the performance of the new Sun Fire machines are worth the price? Last question: the 2nd hand machine I bought has two on-board ethernet ports (gem0, gem1) and a PCI card with 4 hme ports on it. Is there a difference in quality in these adapters, or can I just pick a port at random? Again thanks in advance :) walter
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