Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?
As we are a bit off the subject of 1000s but more in the Sun vs intel...
At equal price, you get, let's say an ss10/sunos and a
PC-P4-1GHz-ide/linux.
They are servers, running apache, mysql or your own code.
Shit happens; load gets high, memory gets low and the PC freezes when
the obsolete sun just slows down paging.
And the sun brings an open prom and serial console to monitor/fix (even
remotely) when you just power cycle the PC.
This has a price in production.
Another case; you write code and try to make it clean and handsome,
elegant, intellectually satisfying.
When you look inside a PC mess, do you think your smart code deserves that?
Have a look inside a sun or an apple, that's much more appropriate.
Just call me a maniac; that's all subjective and ego flattery... well
maybe.
It's like my ford; it is a mess where you have to pull off the cooling
system to change a light bulb as my VW doesn't need a screwdriver to do
all of the maintenance. Not counting the yearly costs, I feel safer in
the vw than in the ford, because I can tell from the start that
engineers (and not apprentice sorcerers looking for cheap machine to
conquer mass market) took care of building it.
I would like to see stress cases of, let's say mysql server, both on
sun, apple and intel servers running sunos, macos and linux and
maintenance costs. If you know a link about that, please send it to me.
Loïc.
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Je préfère croire qu'une chose étrange et belle que je ne connais pas
encore réussira à prendre de court la logique sans pitié que j'ai dû
incurgiter sans m'en être encore libéré.
- personnal translation:
I like the idea that something beautiful and still unkown to me would
can win the race against the freezing cold logic that I had to swallow
and from which I am not yet released.
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Hugo Pratt par la bouche de Corto Maltese.
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