2006-03-01
Free Sun Fires for a blog review -- decision time
So I got accepted to the trial & buy offer Sun "I applied for":http://feh.holsman.net/articles/2006/02/24/free-sun-fires-for-a-blog-review-fair-deal-i-think recently.
All I need to is give them a credit card so they can pre-authorize the $AUD11,000 for the server, and noticed the small print saying I need to return the thing if I don't like it.
I need to find out a little bit more about how one returns a $11k machine, and if that's ok (and I can sneak the box past my wife) I think I will get it for 60 days and get it a good spin.
so far I have had "Yusuf":http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/chichang1?entry=rsa_performance_of_sun_fire contact me about why niagra comes shipped with the prefork MPM model and not the faster (in my opinion) worker MPM one.
The answer to that one is for stability. some 3rd party applications (PHP) allow you to build them with non-thread safe extensions.
So if you are planning on benchmarking the sunfire, and stumble on this post.. make sure you spend some time configuring your applications on it so that they run properly. Don't just run with the 'default' or you won't all the performance you should.