Re: Solaris

From: Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>
To: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
Cc: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>, ianh(at)tpchd(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Solaris
Date: 2003-04-26 05:19:35
Message-ID: 3EAA16E7.1030604@paradise.net.nz
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scott.marlowe wrote:

>My general experience from a year ago was that Linux was about 2 to 3
>times faster on older 32 bit sparc hardware than Solaris, and just under 2
>times as fast on 64 bit hardware.
>
Wow - 2 times faster is significant ! It would be interesting to try a
midrange SMP box ( e.g E280/E480 ).

> The issue in the past was mainly that Solaris had a brain damaged
>sort() call that was very slow when it had a lot of duplicate keys. That
>has since been updated by Sun.
>
>
Hmm - I ran into that situation with qsort() and many equal keys (see
Hackers thread "Solaris Performance"). Sadly Sun have not amended that
situation at all (in Solaris 8 anyway).

best wishes

Mark

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