MEDIA: The Solaris performance advantage

#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:18 PM

<URL:http://www.sun.com/2004-1012/feature/>
| The powerful combination of the Solaris OS and the AMD Opteron
| processors is shattering benchmark records and delivering breakthrough
| price/performance for databases, application servers, Web servers,
| compilers, and more.

Kudos to Sun for the Solaris Opteron system benchmarks.

John
groenveld@acm.org

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:18 PM

John D Groenveld wrote:

> <URL:http://www.sun.com/2004-1012/feature/>
> | The powerful combination of the Solaris OS and the AMD Opteron
> | processors is shattering benchmark records and delivering breakthrough
> | price/performance for databases, application servers, Web servers,
> | compilers, and more.
>
> Kudos to Sun for the Solaris Opteron system benchmarks.
>
> John
> groenveld@acm.org

I think that if the speed was compared to one of the bsd's (especially
netbsd) the results would be faster than solaris.

gtoomey

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:18 PM

Gregory Toomey wrote:

> I think that if the speed was compared to one of the bsd's (especially
> netbsd) the results would be faster than solaris.

Even though they used dual CPU machines?

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#4 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:18 PM

In article <2t4kbjF1rt7c3U1@uni-berlin.de>,
Gregory Toomey <nospam@bigpond.com> wrote:
>I think that if the speed was compared to one of the bsd's (especially
>netbsd) the results would be faster than solaris.

Fortunately for Sun, IBM and HP don't sell *BSD x86/Opteron systems.

John
groenveld@acm.org

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