healyzh_at_aracnet.com wrote:
>
> > Pentium III, hell the K6-2/450 here with Solaris 8 beat the
> > UltraSparc10 (300MHZ)... (gcc compile and build of an object over NFS with
> > the same server).
> >
> > Amazing that my home toy outperforms the work box.
> >
> > Both had IDE drives and 128mb memory.
> > (Personally, I prefer FreeBSD on the K6... but that wasn't what I was
> > testing in the benchmark)...
> >
> > Bill
>
> Now, you want the really scarry part? Price what it would cost you to get a
> nice SparcStation 20 (5 year old system) with say 1 SM71 CPU, 128MB RAM, 4GB
> HD, and 8-Bit graphics. Then price what you can get if you go buy *new* PC
> hardware that will run Solaris! Shoot, just price a nice SS20 on eBay then
> the PC hardware at your local shop, even that can be scarry!
Which is why we deploy generic x86 boxes (mostly Penguins as of late, since
they're nice and inexpensive little rack mount boxes) running Sol 2.8 x86
rather than sparcs whenever we can. Oracle running on a single processor
700 MHz PIII is an amazing site to behold when compared to it running on
a dual processor 420R -- even when the 420R has a gig more memory installed
than the x86 machine.
The only time we deploy sparcs these days is when there's some third-party
piece hunk of code that doesn't run on some form of X86 unix. The price-performance
is a complete no-brainer, and if the X86 box breaks I can find spares pretty
much anywhere.
--
Chris Kennedy
chris_at_mainecoon.com
http://www.mainecoon.com
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Received on Tue Nov 14 2000 - 16:54:59 GMT