Date:         Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:43:49 -0800
Reply-To:     "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@IX.NETCOM.COM>
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From:         "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Optimizing SAS on a SUNOS 5.8
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              vossberg@FMHI.USF.EDU on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:45:09AM -0800
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on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:45:09AM -0800, Keith Vossberg (vossberg@FMHI.USF.EDU) wrote:
> "CAFO" <cafo@int.tele.dk> wrote in message news:<3c0b7bab$0$29640$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk>...
> > Hi ,
> >
> > I run SAS V8.2 on a SUN Enterprice R420 with 4* 450 Mhz and 4GB memory, but
> > it does not perform as well as I would expect it to do.

<...>

> Our IT dept. recently bought the same Sun box and we are now in the
> process of returning it due to its poor performance.  After much
> review and discussion with the Sun expert living at SAS it was
> determined that the box was CPU bound.  An NT box running 733 chips
> could best the Sun runtimes on average by about half. In my opinion,
> Sun should have stopped selling these boxes 18 months ago.  At least,
> to sites specifically buying them for CPU intensive applications.  Oh
> well, lesson learned.

Curious:  did you benchmark (or consider benchmarking) GNU/Linux on the
same platform as the NT box?  If you're comparing NT/Solaris, you might
want to throw GNU/Linux into the mix.

Anyone out there got benchmarks for GNU/Linux v. NT on comperable
hardware for SAS?

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