
mgoh at lle
Nov 1, 2007, 12:39 PM
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One correction -- the IBM x335 has 2GHz Xeons, NOT 3GHz! - Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: rt-users-bounces [at] lists > [mailto:rt-users-bounces [at] lists] On Behalf > Of Matthew Goheen > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:37 PM > To: RT-Users [at] lists > Subject: [rt-users] Some little performance notes... > > During our latest upgrade, we were trying to determine which platform to install > RT on. We had three basic choices: > o Install on our Sun V440 server (main production file server, 4 SPARC CPUs) > o Install on a NEW Sunfire X2200 server (dual Athlon CPUs) running Solaris 10 > o Install on same X2200 running RHEL 5 > > We did some very basic tests. We installed RT 3.6.4 on the V440 (also Solaris 10) > and tried the X2200 under both Solaris 10 and RHEL 5. All machines ran Postgres > (I believe they were all Postgres 8.1 -- but we used whatever came with the > standard install). > > Our existing RT machines was an IBM x335 (dual Xeon 3GHz) running RT 3.4.2 under > RHEL 3. > > In a nutshell, we found: > o The V440 was about 3-4 times slower than our our existing machine > o The X2200 running Solaris was marginally faster than our existing machine > o The X2200 running RHEL 5 was about three times faster than our existing machine > > We went with RHEL 5. > > We did not spend any time trying to figure out WHY Solaris 10 was so slow. We did > notice that times under Solaris would vary quite a bit, even repeating the same > search (this was not the case under Linux). > > Matt Goheen > University of Rochester > Laboratory for Laser Energetics _______________________________________________ http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users SAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON RT SUPPORT: If you sign up for a new RT support contract before December 31, we'll take up to 20 percent off the price. This sale won't last long, so get in touch today. Email us at sales [at] bestpractical or call us at +1 617 812 0745. Community help: http://wiki.bestpractical.com Commercial support: sales [at] bestpractical Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. Buy a copy at http://rtbook.bestpractical.com
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