From: Niall O Broin (nobroin at domain sced.esoc.esa.de)
Date: Thu 23 Sep 1999 - 12:18:58 IST
Hi Kate,
You said
> I dunno - the DCU netsoc have been running it for years, and for a
> multiuser OS, it rocks.
As a long time Solaris admin. I do agree and it certainly degrades under load
much better than Linux. However, my experience is only with Sparc - I've never
got the X.86 version to install correctly. The nearest I came was to have a
complete install done from which I could boot by booting from the CD and then
choosing boot installed hard disk - I could not make it boot properly from the
disk. Note that this wasn't on certified hardware - home made box with Asus
motherboard and IDE drive - same hardware with which I run Linux with absolutely
no prolems.
> The memory thing is because when you start up an app, and it uses 10MB of RAM,
> the OS allocates 10MB of swap, just in case it's needed to swap it out.
Are you sure of this ? This was the SunOS way AFAIR so that you had to have at
least X MB of swap if you had X MB of memory. With Solaris (at least on Sparc)
swap is optional and I don't think that the big users with a 10000 with GBytes
of RAM have that all matched with swap. I know I often use Solaris with no swap
at all, although I recall your mentioning at some time in the dim and distant
past some app. under Solaris which insisted on having some swap or it wouldn't
work at all (don't remember what it was though)
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
UNIX Network Administrator nobroin at domain esoc.esa.de
Ground Systems Engineering Department Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179
European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany
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