Re: Hot swap CPU -- any chance this thread will end?

[b.j.smith at ieee.org (Bryan J. Smith)]

On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 07:43 -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
> I'm not sure if they continued to run Slowlaris on them or if they
> installed some incarnation of Linux.

Could we stop this bigotry?

Until someone can demonstrate Linux runs on 2 or even 4-way systems as
good as Solaris, I would rather not hear this chest pounding junk.

> I figure any remotely modern laptop could probably compute rings
> around any of these boxes with much lower power usage, cooling and
> space requirements.

Ummm, I would actually very much _differ_ with that for many
applications.  Most notebook processors have very limited interconnects
and greatly reduced performance for power, as well as slower memory,
disk, etc..., typically resulting in only 1/2 - 1/3rd the nominal power
of a desktop (especially when on battery and a P4 or an older Athlon
slows to under 1GHz).


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