Is Solaris on Intel really “Slowaris”–slower than other Intel-based operating systems?
By default, the other free OS’s aren’t SMP very capable out of the box–Solaris is. Solaris handles multiple processes and threads easily in a SMP system. So, one single CPU system, Solaris has a fair amount on un-necessary overhead–which slows it down a bit. Because the other OSes don’t have this capability, or at least don’t use it to full advantage, they have a bit of a performance advantage on a single CPU machine. This advantage disappears when you start adding processors. So, I think Slowaris is a little bit too far, but it is at a bit of a performance disadvantage. But on an 2GHz processor, who cares?! Odds are you’ll just be idling very quickly! Update: a benchmark test by Tony Bourke ran Solaris x86 9 against Linux 2.4 (RedHat 9). He concluded Solaris x86 and Linux performed the same, except with web operations, where Linux was about twice as fast. Both systems had the latest updates. See http://www.osnews.com/story.php?
By default, the other free OS’s aren’t SMP very capable out of the box–Solaris is. So, one single CPU system, Solaris has a fair amount on un-necessary overhead–which slows it down a bit. Because the other OSes don’t have this capability, or at least don’t use it to full advantage, they have a bit of a performance advantage on a single CPU machine. This advantage disappears when you start adding processors. So, I think Slowaris is a little bit too far, but it is at a bit of a performance disadvantage. But on an 2GHz processor, who cares?! Odds are you’ll just be idling very quickly! Update: a benchmark test by Tony Bourke ran Solaris x86 9 against Linux 2.4 (RedHat 9). He concluded Solaris x86 and Linux performed the same, except with web operations, where Linux was about twice as fast. Both systems had the latest updates. See http://www.osnews.com/story.php?
