Comments on: Accelerators and Bingo

By: zirpu

zirpu — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:10:52 +0000

http://www.textdrive.com/systems

seems out of date. is textdriveusing dell’s or sun?

By: David Young

David Young — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:09:31 +0000

@Sam: Each has its own merits depending on the type of application you’re serving. If your language is thread-safe, the T1000 will be great. Ruby applications on the other hand, tend to do better on the X4100 (Opteron) platform).

@Rob: You really ought to dive into Solaris. Servers crash, and with storage pools getting bigger, the long FSCKs on FreeBSD were driving us crazy. The ZFS filesystem in Solaris is an amazing feat of engineering. Solaris is open-sourced. And Solaris zones (think virtual machines) are very powerful ways to get maximum performance from your servers.

By: Clark Wilkins

Clark Wilkins — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:40:18 +0000

Amazing commercial. Makes me want to go out and buy some Suns. But then I don’t have to…

Great job!

By: Adam Lindsay

Adam Lindsay — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:18:24 +0000

I can’t believe this was under seven months ago. You guys make me really want to put some of my meager savings into SUNW.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:43:49 +0000

Do you guys have any experience with the FreeBSd-sparc64 port on Sun servers? I’m interested in one but am not that comfortable with Solaris compared to FreeBSD, but I’m not sure if there are any issues I should be concerned with.

By: Sam Freiberg

Sam Freiberg — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:10:53 +0000

I’m curious how the T1000 compares to the x4100 for web serving. Have you guys done any benchmarks? And when do you choose one over the other?

By: Douglas F Shearer

Douglas F Shearer — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:51:54 +0000

Is nice to see a ‘small’ company such as Joyent being looked after by a big company such as Sun, and repaying the favor.

Oh for an X4500 to replace my studio NAT boxes!