Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:35:34 +0200 From: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> To: Royce Williams <royce.williams@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie to FreeBSD on SPARC - questions about Sun hardware Message-ID: <4B4B7D86.6000502@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <9dd082311001111056j1ca3afb4le14ba84270fb730@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B4A6FA5.1010002@netscape.net> <4B4B6E37.3050005@netscape.net> <9dd082311001111056j1ca3afb4le14ba84270fb730@mail.gmail.com>
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Royce Williams wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> wrote: > > >> is this list online or dead? >> >> Sorry am just not used to a mailing list being this quiet! Usually within a >> few minutes or hours of signing up someone has posted something to the list >> (not meaning response to what I ask but just in a generic sense). >> > > I'm mostly a lurker on this list, but I'd say that the silence was > because your message had multiple sections, and some of the questions > were non-trivial to answer. :-) > > Your summary was helpful: > > [...] > > .. but you also said that you were interested in the difference > between SPARC and x86. There are many, many variables underneath the > answer to these questions. Also, "performance" means different things > to different people. I don't know of any broad, publiished benchmarks > comparing freebsd/sparc64 and freebsd/i386 performance, but they would > be interesting to see. > > Maybe someone else on the list is in a similar boat, and will chime in > here. :-) In my experience, unless you can find others who are > already working under similar requirements, the clueful advice I've > seen people give is that doing your own testing is the best way to get > results that are meaningful to your situation. > > Royce > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Many thanks for the response Royce! :-) Actually I am not that much interested in the performance benefits between x86 and SPARC; but more between OpenSolaris and FreeBSD on SPARC as I will be running either one on a Sun V480 server. The issue I am facing is purely down to software and administration. I mean the best example I can provide is that BSD has the packages I want at least for x86 which I've seen: that are Cacti, Munin, and awstats (should also be there for SPARC too) but then Solaris has zones which allow me to allocate a separate virtualized OS contained within the master OS or global zone. BSD on the other hand has jails and as from going onto the jails list apparently I can actually assign interfaces to various jails which is what I was going to do if I used Solaris Zones. So that's really what my issue is: which OS to choose?? Adding to what I mentioned about Cacti, Munin etc.... Solaris has a secondary site called opencsw which you can download most of the stuff bar Cacti. This just makes thing tricky I feel to install and configure since one can do a /usr/ports/*/cacti then make install clean which will do everything on FreeBSD. Hmm..... decisions, decisions...... Regards, Kaya
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