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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!zippy.cais.net!news.vni.net!cnordin From: cnordin@hq.vni.net (Craig Nordin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 7 Jan 1996 16:43:01 -0500 Organization: Virtual Networks Lines: 67 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <cnordin.821050414@news.vni.net> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hq.vni.net X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1818 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1944 comp.unix.solaris:56481 comp.unix.aix:68080 Do you want to be fastest or do you want to stay up the longest? People are discovering the problems with the P6 right now. Last I heard was a horrible IO choke-point that won't get solved until a revision of the P6 MB. I've got P100s cruising fast with all of the PCI bus I need and they stay up for 50 days at a time if I need them to. They are running on the proven Neptune II chip-set with the only PCI disk controllers that are "approved" by BSDI (Buslogic). And I spend Zero time tending to them. When I need more "performance" I either add memory, add disks (maybe a controller), or add another system. I don't even worry about auto-rebooter's by phone and the like. My life is calm :) I've got friends who are doing Unixware Dual-Pentium on the Triton Chipset and all the other fancy stuff (new Adaptec cards). That seems to mean unpredictable crashes and other headaches. Customers don't like it at all...... BSDI is going to run around SunOS, Solaris, and AIX . It is faaaaast. The Sparc20s are very nice and some of them might actually be an improvement -- but why move yourself off of the commodity prices of Intel sub-systems ? If this is just your play money, work with your favorites that make you happy. If this is the company money, think about what you can do to give them (and yourself) the least headache -- since your time is far more expensive than the equipment or software. Just my stenkin' opinion.... -- "He who loses control, loses." http://www.vni.net/ Frank Pembleton, Homicide cnordin@vni.net Fly VNI: Send E-Mail to info@vni.net