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You are absolutely correct; anyone who worked on Solaris scalability and performance back in the day will have plenty of Dragon war stories -- and Solaris did s
by bcantrill 6y ago
You are absolutely correct; anyone who worked on Solaris scalability and performance back in the day will have plenty of Dragon war stories -- and Solaris did so well on Campfire (a.k.a. UltraSPARC Enterprise 4000, shipped 1996) exactly because so much time and energy had been spent on Dragon (a.k.a. SPARCcenter 2000, shipped 1992).
- throw0101a 6y ago> Campfire (a.k.a. UltraSPARC Enterprise 4000, shipped 1996) My main gripe with the various 'E-series' systems (IIRC, we had some E3x00s) was boot-up time, especially the RAM check on power up. I was in an academic environment, and so every so often we had to power down our lab for electrical/fire code inspection power outages by Facilities. The first time we rebooted one (with 4GB of RAM?) it kept booting and booting and booting and booting and booting and booting. 17 minutes later we got the login prompt on the console. We put the 17 minutes as a note in our run book so that we knew not to worry if took 'forever' and to move onto the next step. Otherwise we'd start freaking out about something being "broken" with the system(s). (This was in the 2001-2001 timeframe.)
- icedchai 6y agoYes! I worked at a startup with an E3500, around 1998-99, and those machines took forever to boot. Nice hardware though. I think ours had a whopping 512 meg.