[s-x86] Re: Solaris 8 /dev/poll?

[Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Palowoda wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > can someone email me the man pages or doc for Solaris 8's /dev/poll
> > interface?  I'd like to post about it on my high performance
> > web server info page.
> 
> Here you go Dan.  
Thanks!  BTW, this is in Solaris 7, too, I guess, but has bugs; see
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?patchid=106541&collection=fpatches

> By the way I notice you discuss Linux io benchmarks
> quite a bit on your webpages comparing them to NT but make no note
> of Solaris x86 io compared to either Linux or NT.  
There is one lovely graph showing Solaris 7 beating them both at 
http://www.kegel.com/nt-linux-benchmarks.html#bench10may1999
If you know of any other juicy graphs, send me the URLs.

> I wish there
> was some specweb 96 numbers to compare linux too spec 99 is not
> a pure io measurement and I didn't see any Linux spec96 numbers
> to compare it too.  

I rather prefer SPECWeb99, since it focuses on how many concurrent
users the server can support - an important step towards the real
world, and more relevant and understandable for readers.

> Volanomarks should be a good one to compare
> on Solaris 8 to the recent Linux 2.3.x kernels with say 4 cpu's.

There has been some criticism of Volanomarks as too synthetic, but
yeah, I agree.

> The other fast messaging net information systems would be
> nntp messaging (haven't seen a benchmark for this but highwind
> keeps live stats) see
> http://nntp.news.abs.net/cyclone/stats/index.html
> gives an idea what a dual 300mhz PII Solaris 2.7 box will give
> in articles per/sec.   

That URL was dead for me - server not found - do you have an update?

> And of coarse your new ftp benchmark [http://www.kegel.com/dkftpbench/]
Gee, you've heard about that?  Cool.  I'd be more than happy to
link to sites that use it to compare FTPD's on Solaris, if you know of any.

> [maybe a ldap/email] benchmark.
> I enjoy reading your webpages and hope you give Solaris 8 a chance
> in some of your pages.
Thanks.  If you know of web pages with nice comparisons that you think
belong on my pages, let me know.

- Dan

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