On 11/05/18 23:51, Kihaguru Gathura wrote: > Hi, > > From a security standpoint, > which platform will offer better performance
huh? What's your priority, security or performance? > solution in web and database now that OpenBSD > multithreading is switched off for Intel? > > > (Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 250 - Version F - 2 X SPARC64 V 1.98 GHz) a very old, SCSI based computer. > or > (Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S6 - 2 X Xeon 6 core 12 thread E5620 2.4 > GHz) A not quite as old SATA/SAS system (but still hardly new). If you have both, do your own benchmarks. If you have one and no budget to buy something ...um... modern, use it. If you have neither, buy something ELSE. My guess is that the Intel powered system will outrun the SPARC system in raw performance in every measure you make. Probably won't even need to use a stopwatch to compare. And a modern laptop will embarrass both of them, multi-threading or not. I'd not put a SCSI system into production as you won't find too many drives less than ten years old, and they are tiny, power hungry, and slow by modern disk standards. At least the SAS based system, you can get new drives for, or even stock it with SSDs and really have fun. Security? Eh. I suspect you aren't getting ROM updates for either. If someone pops your system security and tries to run a binary on it, the UltraSPARC will probably give them a bigger surprise. But if you are running web services, you are probably running apps written by someone without any idea what they are doing in an interpreted language like PHP, and the exact same exploits will take out either platform, because the exploits will be at a much higher level than the processor. Nick.
