On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:25:34PM -0000, Andy Eastham wrote: > Jeremy, > > Thanks for replying. It's CPU bound. > > The 64 bit version has improved things a little - about 5-10%. > > I just expected an enterprise server to be faster than a laptop running > win2k with an IDE, Tomcat, Outlook, Office all at the same time...
Heh. > I now know better. I'm thinking of putting a fast Intel Linux box behind > the sun box as a database server, and leaving the sun to run apache and > tomcat. Hopefully this will give me the best of both worlds. Yeah, in terms of raw CPU speed for most things, Intel/AMD are the best bang for your buck by a long shot. Now, if you were doing heavy image processing, I might suggest a PowerPC based system. But I haven't looked at it very closely in a while. Linux on Intel/AMD is going to trash Sun's low-end market. And they realized it way too late. Their LX50 boxes are too little too late. And when AMD's 64bit stuff hits full production, well it'll just keep climbing the food chain. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 3.23.51: up 30 days, processed 1,011,739,006 queries (380/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
