1 Sep
2018
1 Sep
'18
10:29 p.m.
I am surprised how good Sun's technical marketing was for you to think
this. Linux has scaled better since the early 2000s. The Solaris
x86-64 port has some real gaffes in it to this day at least as visible
in the OpenSolaris derivative codebases, serialization in the locking
primitives kind of things.
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 8:23 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso(a)mit.edu> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 06:57:41PM -0700, Larry McVoy
wrote:
But all that said, you need to be specific about what perf you care
about. These days the kernel is far more complicated, NUMA etc,
and you might care about parallel make (I doubt it) or you might care
about Oracle or something like that.
It wouldn't surprise me if Solaris was more scalable for gazillion
dollar SMP machines with a huge number of cores. That was one of the
reason as I recall why Solaris had a reputation of being slow; being
scalable to big (and much more profitable) servers was considered more
important than the smaller systems that were probably more numerous
(but not nearly as profitable).
- Ted