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Re: E&M seminar was today
I do not wish to start a flame war (thus I wont call
AIX/IRIX/Dec-UNIX/HP-UX and so on names).
To the point, Solaris, both on x86 and on Sparc is a rock solid OS,
which has proven itself here at TAU for a long time, on various critical
systems, like our mail server, and our proxy farm. We serve about 17,000
users on the mail server, including accepting/delivering mail, and
pop3/imap4 access. There are tens of thousands of connections to this
machine a day, it can run 300 sendmails and some 200 in.pop3d daemons at
once without climbing to more than, say, 0.4 load. It never got stuck, and
in general, the platform is extremely stable (Ultra 30 + Solaris 2.6).
About x86 Solaris, we run 4 proxies, 2 of which are Dell PowerEDGE 2200
machines, with 512MB memory and 25GB cache, running Solaris 2.6 and
serving about 100,000 users (together with the other two machines, SGIs).
These machines are doing IO all day/night long for months, without a
glitch. Their filesystem is rock solid (unlike Linux I'm afraid). We tried
using Linux, but it couldn't handle it quite as well as Solaris does.
I think that Solaris 2.7 is a good OS, excellent for a server, but not
quite as good for a Desktop, since Linux has many more features and
applications written for it, not to mention the speed at which new drivers
for new hardware usually found on desktops are written for Linux. Also,
Solaris tends to have some problems running news servers (innd based), and
here I wholeheartedly recommend BSDi.
Dats all folks,
--Ariel
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