Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:39:35 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net> To: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie to FreeBSD on SPARC - questions about Sun hardware Message-ID: <15033963-494B-4D34-8359-52D2C59EC6A1@anduin.net> In-Reply-To: <4B4B7D86.6000502@netscape.net> References: <4B4A6FA5.1010002@netscape.net> <4B4B6E37.3050005@netscape.net> <9dd082311001111056j1ca3afb4le14ba84270fb730@mail.gmail.com> <4B4B7D86.6000502@netscape.net>
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On 11. jan. 2010, at 20.35, Kaya Saman wrote: > Royce Williams wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> 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: >> >> [...] >> >> .. 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > Many thanks for the response Royce! :-) > > Actually I am not that much interested in the performance benefits between x86 and SPARC; but more between OpenSolaris and FreeBSD on SPARC as I will be running either one on a Sun V480 server. > > The issue I am facing is purely down to software and administration. I mean the best example I can provide is that BSD has the packages I want at least for x86 which I've seen: that are Cacti, Munin, and awstats (should also be there for SPARC too) but then Solaris has zones which allow me to allocate a separate virtualized OS contained within the master OS or global zone. BSD on the other hand has jails and as from going onto the jails list apparently I can actually assign interfaces to various jails which is what I was going to do if I used Solaris Zones. > > So that's really what my issue is: which OS to choose?? > > Adding to what I mentioned about Cacti, Munin etc.... Solaris has a secondary site called opencsw which you can download most of the stuff bar Cacti. This just makes thing tricky I feel to install and configure since one can do a /usr/ports/*/cacti then make install clean which will do everything on FreeBSD. Two things that make me use FreeBSD before (Open)Solaris on any piece of SPARC hardware I get my hands on: - It "feels" faster, snappier, whatever, no hard evidence, just gut feeling - FreeBSD is, from my perspective and when using non-bundled opensource software, easier to manage. Three words: ports, portmaster, freebsd-update. /Eirik > Hmm..... decisions, decisions...... > > Regards, > > Kaya > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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