Comments on: More on Benchmarking OSs

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:33:48 +0000

Hi Michal. Given that OpenSolaris is more or less dead I don’t think we’ll be wasting any time on trying to resolve this I’m afraid.

By: Michal

Michal — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:20:58 +0000

hey, warning – it is an offtopic :)

i’m looking forward for some kind of update of how to run opensolaris in PV mode under xenserver 5.6. any chances to do that?

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:21:59 +0000

And I suspect they use more modern compiler options too. Is it the case that RedHat still compile practically everything as i386?

Whatever, OpenSolaris was *still* quicker ;-)

By: Gary Law

Gary Law — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:39:27 +0000

The gap between Ubuntu and CentOS (Red Hat) can be explained: Red Hat is ultra-conservative in its use of kernels, and ends up with old(-ish) ones, with myriad backported fixes. Ubuntu is closer to the current Linux kernel, with all those accumulated go-faster stripes…

That’s my theory anyway ;)