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Article #3188Re: Sparc IPC and Solaris 2.x
From: Luigi Mattera
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 00:00
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Craig Dewick (craig@zeta.org.au) wrote: : In <x5enc8hu99.fsf@apprentice.silicon-sorcery.com> massey@mage.silicon-sorcery.com writes: : >Will solaris 2.x or above run a sparc IPC machine. : Yes. I have a Sparc IPC as the gateway machine for my network at home, and : it's running SunOS 5.5.1 (aka Solaris 2.5.1) just fine since I migrated it : up from SunOS 4.1.4 a few weeks ago. Make sure you quite a decent ammount : of RAM though - SunOS 5.x seems to need more physical RAM than SunOS 4.1.x : did to give the same relative level of performance. I agree 100%. When I was first hired for my internship, I built Solaris 2.5 on a Sparc IPC. It was quite useable, although a bit slow at times. Now I've moved up to a Sparc Classic, and the biggest performance hit I've got comes from having only 24 MB of RAM. I had to kill my virtual screen setup because swapping between windows took upwards of 30 seconds. Now that I am back to one screen, everything seems to be responding fine.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4671,6c69a2794a2f0513 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4671,public X-Google-Thread: 10d053,bc29c65633e81781 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d053,public From: mattera@ssga.ssb.com (Luigi Mattera) Subject: Re: Sparc IPC and Solaris 2.x Date: 1997/04/24 Message-ID: <5jo005$6p9@svna0001.clipper.ssb.com> X-Deja-AN: 237091952 References: <x5enc8hu99.fsf@apprentice.silicon-sorcery.com> <5j96kd$3fd@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,aus.computers.sun Organization: State Street Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,aus.computers.sun