Re: [ldap] Implementation Suggestions

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Friday, January 20, 2006 4:21 PM -0500 Igor Brezac <igor@ipass.net> 
wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
> > --On Friday, January 20, 2006 3:34 PM -0500 Igor Brezac <igor@Ipass.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Have you tried new sparc processors (T[12]000 line)?  I'd be curious to
> > > see they compare against the top x86 processors.
> >
> > Not at this time.  I'm not sure if we have any in-house... We are
> > largely  migrating to x86 (Intel and AMD) at this time, and removing
> > Sparc systems as  fast as possible.  Note that this does not mean we are
> > dropping Sun.
> >
> > > In my opinion Solaris (x86 and Sparc) 10 is a major improvement over
> > > previous solaris releases by a long shot.  Solaris x86 is rock solid and
> > > at minimum as fast as linux in my testing on the same hardware.
> >
> > I should be getting some Sun AMD servers delivered in the near future.
> > If  they are shipped with Solaris 10 x86, I will do a comparison
> > benchmark on one  of them with identical openldap configurations.
>
> You can download: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp
>
> I am not sure which boxes you are getting, I think both v and x lines
> come with Solaris 10.

Yeah, I know I can download Solaris.  It is more that I don't have a whole 
lot of interest in a platform we have no plans on using. ;)  If its there 
and I don't have to hassle with it, I'll test it.

We are currently purchasing the X series of AMD systems.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/Shared Services
Stanford University
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