Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA20597 for pups-liszt; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:09:02 +1100 (EST) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (root@freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA20592 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:08:38 +1100 (EST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA44566; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:38:21 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:38:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Joerg B. Micheel" Cc: "Steven M. Schultz" , pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au, FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8 Message-ID: <20000127153820.T53307@freebie.lemis.com> References: <200001270142.RAA00523@moe.2bsd.com> <20000127145602.P53307@freebie.lemis.com> <20000127180406.A574@begemot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000127180406.A574@begemot.org> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Thursday, 27 January 2000 at 18:04:06 +1300, Joerg Micheel wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 02:56:02PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 26 January 2000 at 17:42:54 -0800, Steven M. Schultz wrote: >>>> From: "Joerg B. Micheel" >>>> I think, popularity of Solaris might rather be restricted by its >>>> performance. I have run Solaris x86 on my desktop for a while for >>> >>> Agreed. I have run Solaris (only up thru 2.6 though) in its >>> "native" environment (Sun hardware) and even there the performance >>> is not anything one would write home about. The difference between >>> SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.x is dramatic in favor on the older leaner >>> system. >> >> That's my experience too, but it may not be typical. For a large >> system with a large number of processes (e.g. ftp server) the >> comparison could be very different. > > That would make quite an interesting test. How much does > ftp.cdrom.com gain by running FreeBSD instead of Solaris ? Good question. My guess is that Solaris 2 just couldn't handle that many connections, but it compete reasonably well with fewer connections (say 1000). I'll copy the FreeBSD chat people and see what they think. For -chat: Sun have announced their intention to release the source code of Solaris [2.]8. We're discussing what this means. See http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/source/ for more details. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers