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

2005-10-11 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:52 am, David Schanen wrote: Well, it wasn't my decision to go with Linux in general or Redhat in particular, but I wouldn't have necessarily lobbied against it had I been a part of the process at the time. I've been faced with similar decisions, and I can

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

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello S, Saturday, October 8, 2005, 5:06:46 AM, you wrote: SD It's common knowledge for any technical person that Linux is faster than Solaris. Till Solaris 10 the gap in performance was _huge_. I speak this from realworld experience. But people who have SD used Solaris 10 claim it has gotten

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

2005-10-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 10 October 2005 02:37 am, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 October 2005 08:06 pm, S Destika wrote: It's common knowledge for any technical person that Linux is faster than Solaris. Till Solaris 10 the gap in performance was _huge_. I

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

2005-10-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We haven't even brought up the great tools yet...have you ever tried to debug with gdb? I haven't tried recentely, but as of a year or two back, it couldn't reliably support re-entrancy into a shared library. Although to give it credit you could enter

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

2005-10-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 10 October 2005 05:19 am, Joerg Schilling wrote: So debugging on Linux is what Brian Cantrill calls sending a new debug airplane with 300 new passengers over the ocean in hope that it will crash too just in oder to find the reason instead of checking the rests of the one machine that

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

2005-10-10 Thread Döhr, Markus ICC-H
[...] For the most part, all Linux systems are debug systems. [...] We run Linux in all our production environments on different platforms (IA64, X86_64, X86) and I'm personally VERY happy with it. Production means SAP databases/instances with ~ 900 users. Although SAP is not a benchmark itself

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

2005-10-10 Thread David Schanen
On 10/10/05, S Destika [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need to patch the Kernel on your own if you use vendor supported ones. You are comparing freeware Linux distro with paid Solaris support. Enterprises go with RHEL, SLES and with support - Redhat/SuSE fix whatever is busted. There

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

2005-10-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 10 October 2005 08:47 pm, David Schanen wrote: On 10/10/05, S Destika [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need to patch the Kernel on your own if you use vendor supported ones. You are comparing freeware Linux distro with paid Solaris support. Enterprises go with RHEL, SLES

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

2005-10-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 10 October 2005 08:47 pm, David Schanen wrote: I administer a cluster of RHEL3 machines actually David, I'd like to ask you a question in regards to Linux and Solaris. You've mentioned that you administer systems running RHEL 3, arguably the most common Linux running in production

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

2005-10-08 Thread Bill Rushmore
. Bill - Original Message - From: Theo Schlossnagle To: S Destika Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 12:11 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sparc ? x86 Comparison Linux can beat solaris hands down running autoconf and ./configure. In fact

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

2005-10-07 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, S Destika wrote: It's common knowledge for any technical person that Linux is faster I think you mean that it was a common *opinion*. than Solaris. Till Solaris 10 the gap in performance was _huge_. I In some, perhaps many, lower end cases, Linux did have a performance

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

2005-10-07 Thread Ian Collins
S Destika wrote: It's common knowledge for any technical person that Linux is faster than Solaris. Till Solaris 10 the gap in performance was _huge_. I speak this from realworld experience. But people who have used Solaris 10 claim it has gotten a lot better. As do the recent benchmarks.

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

2005-10-07 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Friday 07 October 2005 08:06 pm, S Destika wrote: It's common knowledge for any technical person that Linux is faster than Solaris. Till Solaris 10 the gap in performance was _huge_. I speak this from realworld experience. But people who have used Solaris 10 claim it has gotten a lot