[jdev] Re: [jadmin] Re: One million concurrent user

[Bresler, Jonathan]

Play with the Big Boys does not require Solaris or Sparc hardware.
Jabber, like nearly all non scientific or applications, is all integer
math.  i386 is very fast at integer math. Sparc is not.  If one chooses
Sparc processors, sigificantly more processors will be required to perform
the same number of integer operations. string compare, routing decisions,
message copying, encryption, hashing, etc are all integer operations.

Yahoo! runns on FreeBSD and reasonable quality i386 hardware.
Google runs on Linux and commodity to cheap i386 beige boxes.
Hotmail ran for years on FreeBSD and reasonable quality i386 hardware
till on the third try Microsoft was able to convert it to Windows.  Please
note that the Hotmail backend was, and as far as I know, still is Oracle
on Solaris Sparc processors.

Details regarding Hotmail's conversion available at http://bresler.org/Microsoft/hotmail.html

Jonathan M Bresler

-----Original Message-----
From: jdev-bounces at jabber.org on behalf of Trejkaz
Sent: Fri 1/21/2005 5:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [jdev] Re: [jadmin] Re: One million concurrent user
 
On Friday 21 January 2005 08:54, Tom Coffin wrote:
> If you're serious about million user capacity, I really think you need
> to go commercial.  Of course you'd also need to get off of Linux and go
> to Solaris too.  Get yourself some big Sun servers with lots of
> processors.  Get Oracle.  Put it all in a data center with raised floors
> and 24x7 admins and pay union guys to run your cables.  Come play with
> the big boys!

As an aside, doesn't Linux run faster than Solaris, even on SPARC hardware?  I 
remember seeing a friend's benchmarks to that effect a year or so ago. :-)

TX

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