[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sparc ? x86 Comparison

2005-10-11 Thread S Destika
Ok, your claim that Linux has gotten better is well taken. Let's move on. Alright - there is no further reason for debate. I generally try and avoid flaming people and succeed quite a few times but if I lost control some times, please forgive. I am watching the Solaris bugzilla with the

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sparc ? x86 Comparison

2005-10-10 Thread S Destika
b If you use an email client - reply to the mailing list only. Do NOT reply to me as it will bounce./b br br I'm sure they claim linear scalability *for some benchmarks*. Probably the STREAMs benchmarks which is meant to scale linearly on NUMA systems (if it doesn't, the system is broken)

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sparc ? x86 Comparison

2005-10-10 Thread Casper . Dik
If you use an email client - reply to the mailing list only. Do NOT reply to me as it will bounce. I fyou want any more responses then want you to mail with a proper email address. What makes you think on all other counts Linux will fail to scale miserably? I would be curious to hear if you

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sparc ? x86 Comparison

2005-10-10 Thread S Destika
biIf you use an email client - reply to the mailing list only. Do NOT reply to me as it will bounce. /i/b br br Why? If Linux performs well with 32 bits and mind you the Linux numbers go from 1 CPU to 8CPU as opposed to the 2-CPU to 4-CPU Solaris figures, meaning clearly Linux is at a good

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sparc ? x86 Comparison

2005-10-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 10 October 2005 14:54, S Destika wrote: Why? If Linux performs well with 32 bits and mind you the Linux numbers go from 1 CPU to 8CPU as opposed to the 2-CPU to 4-CPU Solaris figures, meaning clearly Linux is at a good amount of disadvantage and still performs reasonably well (ie.

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sparc ? x86 Comparison

2005-10-10 Thread S Destika
Thanks for a good laugh. GDB doesn't work between 2 kernel versions - that was hilarious. I mean yeah, I can hack a kernel which disables ptrace support and tell the world this hilarious story of no workie! And if you didn't knew - Linux kernel is different from GDB - GDB is userspace thing,