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Benchmarks For Linux And Solaris On SPARC Hardware?

Posted by Cliff on from the comparing-unix-clones dept.

NetJunkie asks: "We currently run several Web servers on Sun Ultra 5 workstations. We're interested in moving to Linux since there are some things we want to do which are expensive to do with Solaris. Are there any good benchmarks of Linux on Sparc against Solaris? We're rolling out PC hardware now, but we'd like to keep using our existing Sun boxes and good benchmarks will make this a much easier sell."

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  1. We have a good reason. by NetJunkie · · Score: 3

    We need to do some things with a *LOT* of very small files. UFS doesn't handle this well and the only option we've found is to buy a copy of Veritas File System for every Ultra 5 box....which is $3K/license.

    I can do everything we want with Linux and ReiserFS for much less money.