Re: NOAAPort data server x86 configuration (fwd)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 21:39:54 +0000 (GMT)
From: Rick Grubin <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: NOAAPort data server x86 configuration

All,

Having read the recent messages with regard to performance differences
between variants of Linux and Solaris, some questions come to mind:

Concerning difficulty that some folks experience with Linux under higher
loads, have any of you reported back to your particular Linux vendor, or
the "Linux community" at large?  It seems that there'd be some interest on
their respective parts as to why Linux is outperformed by Solaris, as some
of you note having informally seen.

Or perhaps this is something the Unidata folks have examined, or are
considering examining.  Though "worse performance under high load" is a
subjective thing, is there some (significant?) difference between the two
OSs that Unidata folks have noticed during development that may be the
cause?

Lastly, for Unidata folks: are you considering adding FreeBSD as a
supported platform (for LDM and/or anything else)?

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Rick Grubin                  address@hidden
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