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															Steve Roome wrote:

> Does anyone here have any of these running to serve stuff ?

Only some of the slightly bigger brother - X4100.


> I'm going to run FreeBSD on it and put it in a datacentre somewhere (hopefully
> not in a shipping container!), so if anyone has one of these not running
> Solaris then I'd be interested to hear of your experiences with them. Particularly
> if you've got working serial console and access to mess with it before it boots
> the OS.

I don't recall what console access the 2100s have aside from the OS, but
the ILOM card on the 4100 is brilliant.


> If someone has one running Solaris, then I'd also be interested, particularly
> in what bizarre set of events led you to continue running solaris rather than
> just use the media as a sort of interesting drinks coaster.

I have just been running extensive tests on identical X4100s with 12 GB
RAM and dual CPUs for number crunching. We essentially pitted Red Hat
Enterprise AS against Solaris 10 and discovered that the Red Hat box had
a performance advantage of 3:2, while memory usage was 9:10. Obviously,
each application will vary, but for our needs, there was no way to
justify running Solaris on them.

- Iain.