Re: Sun's lethargy

[Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>]

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 23:50:42 -0800 (PST) ben <ben@stonehenge-net.com> wrote:

> have to agree with you.  I have yet to find a task that's faster on the 8
> processor Sun machine than on the dualy PIII next to it under linux.
> Theoretically, they scale better,

database.

any decent DBA with a monster app would much rather have a system with
large numbers of cpus, never mind how fast or slow they are. good
multi-threaded RDBMS systems are one of the few apps that can really
make full use of n processor SMP systems, but they make _really_ good
use of them.

OpenBSD isn't really database oriented at the present time, from what i can
see, so in that context things that DBAs want like n processor SMP and
journaling file systems don't seem to be up there on the priority list.
this is fine, i just don't recommend OpenBSD solutions for serious database
problems. it's not what OpenBSD is for.

richard
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