On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 11:49 +0000, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > There's lots of improvements in Solaris that make it faster than > linux (eg. we completely *smoke* linux in terms of TCP/IP performance) > but also a few places where linux appears much faster, esp. filesystem > operations. Usually that's because linux has fairly intensive disk > caching turned on by default (so despite the fact that commands that > write to disk finish much quicker, often the data isn't actually written > to disk ! So if you have a power outage just after one of these commands > has finished, on Solaris your disk will be in a consistent state (and > the , whereas on linux you're screwed...) > > - it's not always about performance, reliability also comes into it.
This is quite amusing, and a bit sad.. Back when VAX/VMS was king, and Sun was the snot-nosed new kid on the block, these *exact* same arguments were going on. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?" Unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
