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=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE 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 b0f30dd0 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 23:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 46071A1F82; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 09:03:03 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79472A1A2F; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 09:02:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 158F2A1A2F; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 09:02:50 +1000 (AEST) Received: from p3plsmtpa09-05.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa09-05.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [173.201.193.234]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5AE3A1A20 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 09:02:49 +1000 (AEST) Received: from medusa.kilonet.net ([72.69.214.193]) by :SMTPAUTH: with ESMTPA id vsREfAAfmZtN7vsRFfXt5w; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 16:02:49 -0700 Received: from [199.89.231.101] (ender.kilonet.net [199.89.231.101]) by medusa.kilonet.net (8.14.8/8.15.1) with ESMTP id w7VN2mRh006246 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 19:02:48 -0400 (EDT) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <20180830213407.6DC4718C0A6@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20180831213451.r7LAj%ca6c@bitmessage.ch> <20180831215854.GB28971@mcvoy.com> From: Arthur Krewat Message-ID: <7ed51612-82d7-90ca-ceaf-37b0c869ff93@kilonet.net> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 19:02:36 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180831215854.GB28971@mcvoy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfMo/OPrnWj1swjkILobXlUT0wId/2FwS4voXWadiplywPbeqdFiu11mqKlLhj/Hfe54okaRC6pi6+LXnYum6b+7nB8VWbF0s2QFOW7dnd0Hd+eQHPFhI 7mbrrLE4F3ffwDBW+7nemS9ckM2e2Xp9BQCnPoa6LuGhcP9mdXY4FvwKaWInyAOvqER+BCWYBBTu2g== 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: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On 8/31/2018 5:58 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Solaris was Sys Vr4 (which, if I recall correctly, differed from r3 > largely due to some stuff being ported over from SunOS). Both the kernel > and user space went to a Sys V compat system, it no longer felt anything > like BSD. > I would be very interested in anyone's recollections of how Solaris eventually turned out performance-wise, say version 9+, compared to other operating systems. SunOS, Linux, AIX, etc. I find it's about equal, and even exceeds Linux in terms of it's NUMA support and multi-processor support. I need to move some systems away from Solaris and off to Linux, and I find it's NUMA support lacking in certain ways. ak