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Re: FW: [FW1] Platform Question



I'm not trying to be a smart a$$, but I wonder how many people would go
FROM solaris TO windows.

I don't know much about anything, but I have heard that Solaris machines
work much better under HIGH load then windows machines.  Is your server
under high load?

I wouldn't be TOO suprised if your users are actually experiencing a
performance hit.  My reasoning here is:

-What version of FW-1? Is it a version that supports SMP?
-was the 220R dual?  what CPUs did it have?  Two 450's perhaps?
-does the Windows FW-1 version support SMP?  If it doesn't then you are
comparing two boxes with very similar hardware(assuming worst case
on the # of CPU's in the 220R)... but one with the overhead of an
expensive qui.
-even though your RAM has increased, if you weren't using all 128mb on the
Solaris machine... then it wouldn't make any difference.

(PS.  Have you checked your speed and duplex on the NICs on the NT
machine?  Autonegociation is worse then useless.)

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 [email protected] wrote:

> 
> It's funny, I didn't get one single reply on this... does that mean NO ONE
> has ever run into this, or is it just something no one wants to talk about?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:25 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [FW1] Platform Question
> 
> 
> 
> Howdy everyone... we recently switched platforms (from Solaris to NT4.0).
> Has been up and running this way for about 2 weeks, and now VPN users are
> complaining that things 'seem' slower. Does anyone have any suggestions for
> quantatively measuring performance? Unfortunately the Solaris box is gone so
> I don't have anything to compare it too, but at least I may be able to
> compare it to what the NT box should be performing at.
> 
> Thanks... here are some further details.
> 
> Before: Sun 220R single CPU 128M RAM running Solaris, FW-1 SVC Pak2
> After: Dell Poweredge 2300 Dual 400Mhz CPU 512M RAM, FW-1 SVC Pak2
> 
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--Paul



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