[Info-vax] HP to distribute Solaris

[Michael Austin]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <Kskrl.8148$jZ1.1649 at flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com>,
> 	Michael Austin <maustin at firstdbasource.com> writes:
>> IanMiller wrote:
>>> On 3 Mar, 13:40, "John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)" <a... at nonymous.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/unix_linux/showArticle.j...
>>>
>>> Press release from last month http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2009/090225xa.html
>>>
>>> I guess this deal could sell more HP systems :-)
>>
>> All I have to say is - RUN FORREST RUN!!!!!!
>>
>> The context switching of Solaris is still horrendous.  It does not seem 
>> to have improved over the last 20 years at all...  it is still crap. 
>> (and I have a VERY large DW that can prove it...)
> 
> Solaris hasn't been around for 20 years.  SunOS, their offering prior
> to jumping on the (badly flawed) System V bandwagon was a very good
> implementation of BSD with a lot of promise.  But as we all know all
> too well, technical superiority is not what decides the winner in the
> marketplace.
> 
> bill
> 
> 


It may well have been SunOS - either way, I see the same thing with 
Slowaris as I did with SunOS w/regard to context switching...  When you 
have a cluster manager (Oracle's CRS) that cannot tolerate missed 
check-ins due to a process that gets hung on the CPU or there are far 
too many threads on that processor - it ain't pretty.