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Ben,
Solaris is a bit more stable and somewhat faster, but not enough to justify
the purchase of a Sparc box.
The real reason you may want to consider solaris is that it has absolutely
fantastic support for multiple processors. The performance scales almost
linearly on a multi-cpu ultrasparc box.
So, if you want the performance benefits of a multi-cpu machine, go with
solaris. Otherwise I can't see any reason to move away from linux at all.
Also keep in mind that the upcoming linux 2.4 kernel has much better support
for multiple cpus, so the point may be moot. But note that it will take
linux a while to catch up to solaris' multiprocessor prowess. Solaris has
much finer grained kernel locking and tons more experience in this arena.
Another point to consider is "enterprise level" support. If you invest in a
sufficiently expensive sparc box you will get some very fancy features
indeed. Almost all the hardware is hot-swappable - disks, memory, cpus,
network cards, power supplies et al.
Also note that you almost need to buy a sparc box to run solaris. If you are
thinking of solaris on intel - don't. It just isn't worth it. Solaris
supports only a limited amount of hardware on intel. Drivers aren't updated
frequently etc. On intel boxen, linux is king.
naeem
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Ricker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 12:10 PM
> To: Java Apache Users
> Subject: SOlaris and Jserv
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> Just a request for a suggestion: we are running Apache/Jserv on Redhat
> Linux. My boss is pushing for Solaris. I myself am happy with
> the Linux
> boxes. Can anyone give the pros and cons of each platform as
> they relate
> to web server and administration? I thought I had heard about a memory
> leak in Solaris related to Jserv but I cannot find that
> information (and
> I may be wrong about it anyway).
>
> Any help you can give me woudl be apprciated.
>
> Ben Ricker
> US-Rx, Inc.
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