On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > An OS that feels slower may actuall be much faster just because > people have subjective impressions and because one OS may have been > optiomized to result in best subjective impressions only.
Microsoft Windows is surely faster than any Unix because it executes the "foreground" task (the program with the highlighted title bar) with far more priority than any other task. Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition is fastest since it maximally cranks up the priority on the foreground task given that home users can only realistically work on one thing at a time with their 17" displays. Generally people find that server oriented OSs feel "slower" because they are optimized to do more than one thing at once. They are optimized for throughput rather than instantaneous response time. Server OSs focus on providing data caching which is likely to speed up the next similar request. Regardless of many people's wrong impressions, Solaris and OpenSolaris are a server/enterprise type OS intended to sustain heavy multi-user application loads, and not a desktop productivity OS. OpenSolaris just puts more modern Linux-like decorations on top than Solaris 10. The tiger has not lost its stripes. Linux does reasonably well for desktop productivity and does quite well at implementing the popular "LAMP" server configuration. The "LAMP" server configuration is not particularly demanding and any server limitations may be solved by simply replicating the server a few more times. I have no doubt that Linux will match Solaris performance in small LAMP style servers, and also have no doubt that Solaris will excell when faced with huge application work loads while Linux suffers. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
