BM Seer Unofficial thoughts from an anonymous Sun employee

Frequent Linux crashes drove customer to Solaris

Wednesday Feb 21, 2007

Sun-PostgreSQL win shows benefit of Solaris over Linux. Pretty interesting trends happening in open-source databases.

You can read more at: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;413111662

This also shows why you can't just look at over-optimized benchmarks link TPC-C, one needs to look at real factors in the datacenter. For TPC-C issues you see previous posts:

http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/judging_by_the_wrong_things

...and also some questionable(?) changes over time:
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/ibm_tpc_c_more_hints

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Posted at 06:06PM Feb 21, 2007 in Misc
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This is interesting, in that Postgres has always been rock-solid for my customers under Linux or Solaris - but threaded apps perform MUCH better and are more robust under Solaris. (PG is not threaded). And the same app on the same hardware, often performs better under Sol10/x64 than under Linux.

Posted by Patrick Giagnocavo on February 22, 2007 at 05:04 AM PST #

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