> Try the solaris test again, Binkey, and this time use a filesystem > other than /tmp for the output. Try setting up a ufs-log file > system and see if the performance doesn't exceed that of linux.
I would think that Solaris tmpfs was faster than their filesystems since it wont hit disk unless memory pressure pushes things out to swap. btw last time I checked, Linux on ext2 beat Solaris on tmpfs at dbench (a filesystem benchmark) by a large margin on a dual ultra 60. Anton
