Re: Upgrading to Solaris 9

At 11:49 AM 11/11/2003, Ray Ontko wrote:
>Sounds like an opportunity for someone at Sun to fund a
>little research project.  Any Sun/Postgresql hackers out
>there?  Any Sun project managers lurking out there?

Does Solaris 8 have the same problem?  We run postgres on Solaris 6 with no
problems at all.


>Ray
>
>On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:37:03PM -0500, Greg Spiegelberg wrote:
> > I did and had too many problems and performance issues.  Solaris-
> > PostgreSQL just doesn't gel as wel as Linux-PostgreSQL.  (ouch)
> >
> > If PostgreSQL were to get retooled to work with threads the way it
> > works between processes today for Solaris or if someone were to find
> > a tweak to make the Solaris scheduler more process-centric than
> > thread-centric (maybe via dispadmin(1)?) then I'm sure Solaris-PG would
> > clobber Linux-PG.
> >
> > I still spin up 7.3.3 on our Sun V480 4CPU, 8GB, 2 internal fibre
> > drives occasionally and our 7.3.3 on RedHat 7.3 with 2.4.20, 2 1.4GHz,
> > 2GB memory and 2 internal U160 kills it.  I've tried the many options
> > for UFS and VxFS and EXT3 on Linux still beats it.  The database I use
> > on the Sun comes from a pg_dump on the Linux system.
> >
> > But, IMHO Solaris 8 or 9 in comparison to Linux on like hardware,
> > databases, configurations and queries the latter will outperform the
> > former every time.  -= IMHO =-
> >
> > The short answer to your question is yes, it will run on Solaris 9.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > >Danielle Cossette writes:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Could you please let me know if Postgres 7.1.3 will run on Solaris 9.
> > >
> > >
> > >Why don't you try it out?
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Greg Spiegelberg
> >  Sr. Product Development Engineer
> >  Cranel, Incorporated.
> >  Phone: 614.318.4314
> >  Fax:   614.431.8388
> >  Email: gspiegelberg@Cranel.com
> > Cranel. Technology. Integrity. Focus.
> >
> >
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