From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 12:27:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1FD37B401 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:27:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5NJRggg004325 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:27:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17MD1S-0000IA-00 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:27:42 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OFF] FreeBSD vs Solaris - Opinions? References: From: Kirk Strauser Date: 23 Jun 2002 14:27:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <87u1ntsslt.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-06-23T08:43:48Z, Steve Warwick writes: > Which, in your opinion would make a better server. Sun UltrSparc 5 / > 333mhz running Solaris (I got a great deal on a couple of machines) or a > generic Athlon 1.2mhz running FreeBSD. [both machines have ATA drives & > 256meg] As other posters have said, it really depends on what services you wish to run. Having said that, a given application compiled from source on each box would most likely run faster on the FreeBSD server. Why? Because Solaris' fine-grained kernel locking makes for tremendously powerful 32-way servers, but really takes a bit out of single-CPU performance. Also, while I have tremendous respect for Sparc CPUs, an Athlon at four times the clock speed will probably move quite a few more instructions per second. To be objective, though, you'll really need to try your applications on both systems. Use the one that works the best after you've evaluated it in *your* environment. -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message