On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 12:51:24PM +0100, Nick Murtagh wrote:
> Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> > http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2006/04/13/more-ubuntu-on-t2000/>> So... how come Solaris is slower than Linux on Sun's own hardware?
>> I mean... doesn't this seems odd to anyone else? Do you get the feeling
> the performance difference is related to something in Apache itself,
> in the operating system or what? Is it a case of Solaris does more
> stuff, therefore it is slower?
I doubt it's anything specific in apache anyway, the apr abstraction
layer simply takes advantage of whatever library and system calls are
available, there arn't many kernel-specific hacks, and when there are -
they are only for working arounbd bugs.
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