From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 11:00:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4BF16A41F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:00:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C34AC43D4C for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:00:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id jAMB3ab71039; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:03:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:00:34 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 In-Reply-To: <9E548E0C-B0BF-4D6C-BD3A-EEC71C46F9C1@shire.net> Importance: Normal Cc: Free BSD Questions list , kayo.granillo@sun.com Subject: RE: Solaris patches and Solaris Express X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:00:52 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [mailto:chad@shire.net] >Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 3:56 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Free BSD Questions list; kayo.granillo@sun.com >Subject: Re: Solaris patches and Solaris Express > > > >On Nov 21, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >>> On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:02 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>> >>>>> Indeed. But this is not Solaris 10 - thats when all of this >>>>> changed. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I never understood why anyone would go to Solaris 10 unless they >>>> had a >>>> 64 bit processor and compiled all their apps under a 64 bit >>>> compiler. >>>> Sun >>>> didn't either, which is why they originally didn't come out with a >>>> Solaris x86 >>>> version of Solaris 10 They only came out with it after much >>>> screaming. >>> >>> I run it (Solaris 10) on a dual Athlon 2800+ MP box. As a server. >>> No X-Windows. To run java. And it runs java better than the same >>> box did with Linux and the sun jvm. >> >> Is the Java version your running restricted to Solaris 10 and above? > >I don't know. > >> >> Is Solaris 10 faster/stabler with Java than older Solaris versions? > >I just got involved with Solaris after 10 was made "Free" (see the >yahoo Solarisx86 list for that discussion -- the same list where this >thread originally started I think before it forked) so I have no >baseline to compare against. I had been running a gentoo Linux 2.4.x >kernel for java processing (before the FreeBSD 1.4 jvm got as good as >it is now) and when the machine had problems, I put Solaris 10 on it >as a test since it has some good resource management stuff for RAM >and CPU etc that I wanted to use with my various java backend >customers and my simple tests showed the same java apps with better >performance than the same HW had with linux... ymmv > Actually I would expect Java to run faster on Solaris, it's their own OS. If it ran slower the trade rags would be all over them. One possibility might be your running binaries downloaded from Sun, these would have been built with the Sun compiler, not gcc, and the sun compiler since it's not a general purpose compiler, does a better job optimizing for Solaris. Ted