From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id f5e2eff0 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 03:45:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 88477A1FB3; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 13:45:09 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E09BA1A20; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 13:44:57 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key; unprotected) header.d=thunk.org header.i=@thunk.org header.b=Sd+QbjEi; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 2FDB1A1A20; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 13:44:56 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 1291 seconds by postgrey-1.35 at minnie.tuhs.org; Sat, 01 Sep 2018 13:44:55 AEST Received: from imap.thunk.org (imap.thunk.org [74.207.234.97]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B98DBA1A1A for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 13:44:55 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=thunk.org; s=ef5046eb; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID: Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=L5cQo7Id8xFoUPVp021vl3uEly1n2xoZVFPVJvNC/qo=; b=Sd+QbjEixuIgtTamvl8VYK7Ql8 FFKDeHbbMQEZVgKhPuOhzeYOIC82conqq2JujChexwRxvSdIQIHO7qtjuYGIQj44InDwVVP2ouNW+ yfL18Q3UHsABvGA6UuLEF7P3ntF2yyQYjEZSEpwNA1TAK/G3T/cd8YpRgqEOJavUrWAc=; Received: from root (helo=callcc.thunk.org) by imap.thunk.org with local-esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1fvwVN-0004ej-DQ; Sat, 01 Sep 2018 03:23:21 +0000 Received: by callcc.thunk.org (Postfix, from userid 15806) id EB0A17A4BBE; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 23:23:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 23:23:18 -0400 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" To: Larry McVoy Message-ID: <20180901032318.GD27277@thunk.org> References: <20180830213407.6DC4718C0A6@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20180831213451.r7LAj%ca6c@bitmessage.ch> <20180831215854.GB28971@mcvoy.com> <7ed51612-82d7-90ca-ceaf-37b0c869ff93@kilonet.net> <20180901015741.GN28971@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180901015741.GN28971@mcvoy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on imap.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: [TUHS] SunOS code? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 06:57:41PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > But all that said, you need to be specific about what perf you care > about. These days the kernel is far more complicated, NUMA etc, > and you might care about parallel make (I doubt it) or you might care > about Oracle or something like that. It wouldn't surprise me if Solaris was more scalable for gazillion dollar SMP machines with a huge number of cores. That was one of the reason as I recall why Solaris had a reputation of being slow; being scalable to big (and much more profitable) servers was considered more important than the smaller systems that were probably more numerous (but not nearly as profitable). - Ted