2009/10/16 Timo Schoeler timo.schoeler@riscworks.net:
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thus Stephen Nelson-Smith spake: | Hi, | |> Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, |> postfix, mysql, etc. | | Do you have a specific reason not to use Solaris? | | If you don't want to do that I've had excellent results with Debian on | Sparc, and NetBSD. | | S.
IIRC there were (and maybe, still are) difficulties of Linux using the (P)MMU in SPARC(64) CPUs, resulting in performance hits. I'm not sure if it was fixed (during the years), though.
Not sure - I have some people I can ask. I've not deployed a Linux-on-Sparc64 machine that needed to be performant. For blistering speed NetBSD is the way to go - it's scary-fast.
S.