[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Joel Bernstein]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:00:41AM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Joel Bernstein wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:53:50AM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> > 
> >
> >
> >Too slow? Are you making the common mistake of assuming that MHz is a
> >decent measurement of CPU performance across architectures? 
> >
> 
> No.
> 
> Go price up a sparc box that's equivalent to a dual opteron 242 with 2gb 
> RAM.  Then go find out how much sparc kit you get for the same price 
> you'd pay for a dual opteron.

Sadly I've not had the chance to compare Oracle performance on these two
architectures. What sort of SPARC kit would be equivalent?

/joel
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