[_] Sun X2100 - for a webserver
Jan Grant
jan.grant at bristol.ac.uk
Thu Nov 2 09:35:37 GMT 2006
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Iain Hallam wrote:
> 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
That sounds so spectacular that it makes me think something's broken.
The OS shouldn't get in the way of straight-line computation that much -
what were the benchmarks, out of interest?
Cheers,
jan
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The only certain way to prevent another 9/11 is via universal calendar reform.
> 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
That sounds so spectacular that it makes me think something's broken.
The OS shouldn't get in the way of straight-line computation that much -
what were the benchmarks, out of interest?
Cheers,
jan
--
jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/
Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/
The only certain way to prevent another 9/11 is via universal calendar reform.