zfs discuss - Jun 2007 - file server performance - slow 64 bit sparc or fast 32 bit intel

I''ve read that ZFS runs best on 64 bit solaris.

Which box would make the best (fastest) fileserver:

Sun v120
650 MHz UltraSPARC IIi
2GB RAM

--or--

Intel D875PBZ
Intel Pentium D 3.0 GHz (32-bit)
2GB RAM
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20070617/03bc9d5c/attachment.html>

Joe S schrieb:
> I''ve read that ZFS runs best on 64 bit solaris.
> 
> Which box would make the best (fastest) fileserver:
> 
> Sun v120
> 650 MHz UltraSPARC IIi
> 2GB RAM
> 
> --or--
> 
> Intel D875PBZ
> Intel Pentium D 3.0 GHz (32-bit)
> 2GB RAM
I''d go with the Intel server. If you want to build a pure file server
just
increase the kernel memory with:

	eeprom kernelbase=0x80000000

I have a similar machine with 2GB RAM. Without manually setting kernelbase 
the machine would hang randomly during I/O operations. With above kernelbase 
the machine runs stable for months now.


Daniel

The Pentium 4 D have 64bit in them (ok not the bottom one)

So you can have your Pentium 4D running in 64bit mode.

Are you buying both kit or do you already have one of these boxes?

Also how many users are going to be using this file server?
 
 
This message posted from opensolaris.org