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September 9, 2008
Sun getting too fancy for their own good
posted by ari
Spent some time today staring at the Terracotta Server's performance on an 8-core Intel running Linux and EXT3 filesystem vs. Sun T1000 24-core running UFS.
Interesetingly enough the OS scheduler, and the HW seem to cause a perfect hell for multi-threaded apps like our server. We run much better on T1000 running multiple server instances in active / active mode where each server instance is small. But on Linux / Intel we can run one big honkin' server process and it just works out of the box.
That said, I am anxious to see what it takes to tune this 24-core silliness into rough performance equivalence to a simple 4 dual-core machine.
Stay tuned.
--Ari
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look forward to hearing more.
Posted by: anjan bacchu at September 9, 2008 9:17 PM