From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Feb 7 14:44:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe.carnagecopia.com (absinthe.carnagecopia.com [216.187.87.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C602137B41A for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:44:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 45512 invoked by uid 85); 7 Feb 2002 22:44:52 -0000 Received: from random@carnagecopia.com by absinthe.carnagecopia.com with qmail-scanner-1.03 (uvscan: v4.0.50/v4184. . Clean. Processed in 0.12934 secs); 07 Feb 2002 22:44:52 -0000 Received: from firewall-vancouver.carnagecopia.com (HELO workstation-61) (66.38.134.97) by absinthe.carnagecopia.com with SMTP; 7 Feb 2002 22:44:52 -0000 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:44:35 -0800 From: Vincent Janelle To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP LH 6000 Message-Id: <20020207144435.7786f3e9.random@carnagecopia.com> In-Reply-To: <3C625779.52282999@mindspring.com> References: <002501c1af02$c54e4140$09c442c3@transport.com.ua> <20020207091417.GA40645@myhakas.estpak.ee> <3C625779.52282999@mindspring.com> Organization: Goblin Studios X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org They said they were not going to produce a version of solaris 9 for x86. That doesn't mean they discontinued support for 7 and 8. The other options for a box that big are UnixWare and (ugh) Win2k Advanced Server. On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 02:31:21 -0800 Terry Lambert wrote: > Vallo Kallaste wrote: > > FreeBSD SMP support is plain-and-simply poor for such configuration. > > Althought x86 Solaris itself is good for this purpose, you'll > > certainly need to check that hardware is certified and Solaris will > > make use of all goodies (RAID controller, etc.). > > There is no room for games if goes to stable SQL server running on > > SMP platform. > > I thought x86 Solaris was discontinued recently. > > FreeBSD is pretty much the only game in town that is at > or near that level. > > -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message