Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance (now Solaris) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeremy Harris
Subject Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance (now Solaris)
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Msg-id 474D7E3A.8090602@vmetro.com
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>> > Only under Solaris.  With Linux or BSD on it it ran pretty well.  I
>> > had a Sparc 20 running RH 7.2 back in the day (or whatever the last
>> > version of RH that ran on sparc was) that spanked an Ultra-2 running
>> > slowalrus with twice the memory and hard drives handily.
>> >
>> > Solaris has gotten much better since then, I'm sure.
>
>     Ubuntu is supposed to be able to spin on a T1000/T2000 and they have
> come out with a magical beast called Solaris 10 and in Sun's infinite
> wisdom they have decided to abandon the /etc/init.d/ and friends way of
> startup for some complex XML way of doing things. But otherwise its
> quite good (ZFS and Cool Thread servers being among the other good
> things out of Sun's shop).

Anybody here running postgresql on a T1000?  What OS, and how is it?

Cheers,
    Jeremy


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