Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance (now Solaris)

[Jeremy Harris <jgh(at)vmetro(dot)com>]

> > > Only under Solaris.  With Linux or BSD on it it ran pretty well.  I
> > > had a Sparc 20 running RH 7.2 back in the day (or whatever the last
> > > version of RH that ran on sparc was) that spanked an Ultra-2 running
> > > slowalrus with twice the memory and hard drives handily.
> > > 
> > > Solaris has gotten much better since then, I'm sure.
>
> 	Ubuntu is supposed to be able to spin on a T1000/T2000 and they have 
> come out with a magical beast called Solaris 10 and in Sun's infinite 
> wisdom they have decided to abandon the /etc/init.d/ and friends way of 
> startup for some complex XML way of doing things. But otherwise its 
> quite good (ZFS and Cool Thread servers being among the other good 
> things out of Sun's shop).

Anybody here running postgresql on a T1000?  What OS, and how is it?

Cheers,
   Jeremy