From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 20 2:13:31 2000 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 02:13:29 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail-internal.nextra.de (mail.nextra.de [212.169.184.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BDFA37B400 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 02:13:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from omnilinkw63 (f-euro.fw.nextra.de [212.169.184.9]) by mail-internal.nextra.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA10807; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:12:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <008e01c06a6d$8006e950$6560310a@intern.nextra.de> From: "Oliver Blasnik" To: "Tom Samplonius" , "Shawn Ramsey" Cc: , References: Subject: Re: Typhoon? (was: newsgroup server recommendation) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:13:29 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi there, Tom Samplonius wrote: > Of course not! Now that Solaris 8 is available for x86 for media costs > only (about $75), there really is no real reason to consider Linux for > running Typhoon. Solaris has a much better thread implementation as well, > which should really benefit Typhoon. Ok, now absolutely off-topic *eg*: You're correct, the Media is about 75$. But you do only get the licence for private use - check that out. And Sol/x86 is really, really expensive, com- pared to Sol/Sparc (ok, _then_ it's the hardware...). Or have I missed something? Btw, we are also planning to use Typhoon on Solaris, but on Sparc Architecture. A nice Raid-Array (0+1) attached for Storage - and then using compression, it's cheaper. My Lab-Setup showed me about 30% compression all over a big8+binaries feed. > Tom Cu, Oliver -- -- http://www.nextra.de - INTERNET@WORK ----- oliver.blasnik@nextra.de -- Nextra Deutschland | Oliver Blasnik Senior System Administrator GmbH & Co KG | Lyoner Strasse 26 D-60528 Frankfurt Engineering TA&S | tel +49-69-66441-0 fax +49-69-66441-199 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message