[_] Sun X2100 - for a webserver
Oliver Humpage
oliver at watershed.co.uk
Thu Nov 2 10:27:22 GMT 2006
on 2/11/06 09:35, Jan Grant at jan.grant at bristol.ac.uk wrote:
> 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?
I'd have thought the OS played a bigger role when it comes to dual processor
(or even dual core) boxes. OTOH, I'd have expected Solaris to fare better...
Oliver.
> 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?
I'd have thought the OS played a bigger role when it comes to dual processor
(or even dual core) boxes. OTOH, I'd have expected Solaris to fare better...
Oliver.