Hi Greg:
Unless you have a canned set of benchmarks that we can run on a couple
of different machines, it's hard to make generalizations about the
performance that you're going to see for your specific workload.
That said, there's a risk-free way of trying the CoolThreads servers.
Sun will send you one and you can try it for 60 days. If you don't like
it you can send it back. This gives you an opportunity to set up the
machine and compare it against other products you might have. The URL
for the try and buy is here:
http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy/
If you run into a specific performance problem, let us know the details.
We may be able to help you debug the problem.
-j
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 02:27:13PM -0800, Greg Caulton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to squeeze every inch of performance out of my system - an open
> source EMR for physician practices which uses PostgreSQL, JBoss, Hibernate,
> RMI, and a rich Swing client on the front end.
>
> My question is whether there are *performance gains* to be had running the
> backend on Solaris instead of say Linux or (cough) Windows.
>
> Perhaps the filesystem would be faster? Perhaps context switching, thread
> management or something else?
>
> The other related question is if I purchased hardware like this:
>
> http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/se_t1000/
>
> will that be faster than spending the equivalent on a dell intel server?
>
> Or is Solaris moving to be supported on intel because of the
> price/performance?
>
> I really love Solaris and Sun products but it only makes sense to invest time
> if I can gain performance on entry level hardware - physicians may be saving
> on the clinical system software but still need well priced hardware.
>
> thanks!
>
> Greg
> http://www.patientos.org
>
>
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