Author Topic: Slowaris to the rescue! (Read 281 times)

TheFatz · « **on:** February 25, 2003, 03:11:47 PM »

Skuzzy, Solaris on i386 or SUN? And have you considered RS6000/Aix 5L ?

Fatz

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2003, 03:25:51 PM »

If u want the worst possible combination:
Dual UsparkIII + Solaris8 + Sybase

Skuzzy · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2003, 04:13:20 PM »

i386

I would not consider AIX, personally. It is a nice OS for what it is. It does database apps really well, but its network stack is a bit slow and cumbersome. We need both to be fast.
I wrote the Adaptec drivers for AIX, and I found it to be a very different UNIX variant at the I/O level. You could see a lot of main frame thinking in the structure (i.e. more batch oriented than concurrent oriented).

All UNIX's have stength and weaknesses. I don't think it is possible to find one that does it all very well.

ccvi · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2003, 04:27:48 PM »

The game server heavily relys on floating point ops, doesn't it? Why not go with alpha/tru64?