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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: TheFatz on February 25, 2003, 03:11:47 PM

Title: Slowaris to the rescue!
Post by: TheFatz on February 25, 2003, 03:11:47 PM

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

Fatz

Title: Slowaris to the rescue!
Post by: MANDOBLE on February 25, 2003, 03:25:51 PM

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

Title: Slowaris to the rescue!
Post by: Skuzzy 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.

Title: Slowaris to the rescue!
Post by: ccvi 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?