Re: kernel performance and robustness, Solaris vs. Linux (was Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box)

1998-05-17 Thread William T Wilson
On 17 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote: > We just bought some SUN Ultra's with Solaris 2.6. The Ultra's have > only 64MB of RAM, but still I find them very efficient. It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that Solaris requires 128MB to do anything useful, it runs very nicely in 64MB, maybe 32MB if

Re: kernel performance and robustness, Solaris vs. Linux (was Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box)

1998-05-17 Thread Eric Smith
I wrote: > I beg to differ. Solaris has a huge bloated inefficient pig > of a kernel as compared to Linux. They do wacky things like Peter Mutsaers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > We just bought some SUN Ultra's with Solaris 2.6. The Ultra's have > only 64MB of RAM, but still I find them very ef

Re: kernel performance and robustness, Solaris vs. Linux (was Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box)

1998-05-17 Thread Peter Mutsaers
>> On 16 May 1998 05:14:23 -, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: ES> "Chuck Carson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The only reason linux is so popular is it is free and most of the >> software is free. Solaris has a far more robust kernel ES> I beg to differ. Solaris has a

kernel performance and robustness, Solaris vs. Linux (was Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box)

1998-05-16 Thread Eric Smith
"Chuck Carson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only reason linux is so popular is it is free and most of the > software is free. Solaris has a far more robust kernel I beg to differ. Solaris has a huge bloated inefficient pig of a kernel as compared to Linux. They do wacky things like allow in