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> > > And then I'll just go back to solaris which works :)
> > 
> > And is slower than a dog.  I guess you'd need that RAID system to get
> > decent I/O performance out of it. :) :)
> 
>   According to a simple test with dd that I ran on the identical hardware
> with 2.2-stable and Solaris 2.5.1 x86, the performance results are
> basically the same.

What kind of performance tests?  Dhrystone and Whetstone's will be
exactly the same since it's the same hardware, but I'd be suprised if
networking, I/O, and load performance were even close to the same.


Nate