Re: Solaris Shared memory setup

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

--On Friday, August 13, 2004 11:01 AM -0400 Scott Walker 
<scott.walker@magma.ca> wrote:

> Thanks for the input Quanah, I'm using/testing solaris 9 on
> an older 420R (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz) with 2GB of ram.
> I have only attached 3 clients to the server and it is getting
> hit very hard.  I'm running at a load of about 1.5, 50% CPU,
> and about 20 threads.
>
> PID   USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE  RES  STATE  TIME   CPU    COMMAND
> 10597 ldap     21  24  0    1433M 274M cpu/2  945:02 54.26% slapd
>
> I guess newer hardware would probably really help out, as my
> production linux OL servers are doing quite well.  They are
> dual xeon 2.4GHz machines.  Was hoping the sun box would perform
> a little better...

Hi Scott,

My test systems are 4 CPU Netra 1450's (which use the same CPU as the 420R, 
IIRC), with 3 GB of RAM.  They are quite responsive to my testing (130 
queries/second when I ran stats earlier this month with 2.2.15).

Is it possible for you to try Solaris 8?

--Quanah

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