Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 17, 2006 07:19 AM
Hmm...interesting info here. I do use GNU/Linux a lot more than I ever have Solaris, so no, I wasn't familiar with DTrace. This tool looks like something I should look into, and it sounds, from your explanation, that Sun might do well to work with the Nexenta folks a bit more closely, like it does with OpenOffice.org.
I personally don't know if Linux will scale *well* to 32 processors, since I just don't have any boxes with that many CPU's (man, I wish!). Linux 2.6 is said to be considerably better about that, though, than Linux 2.4, but again, I've just never tried it. I've never used SystemTap, either, so I'm not familiar with it. However, now that Tyan has motherboards that support sixteen Opteron cores on them, perhaps any scalability bottlenecks or other SMP issues in Linux will show themselves more and give Linus, etc. something more to chew on.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
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Re:Why Nexenta when I already have Debian/Ubuntu?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 17, 2006 07:19 AMI personally don't know if Linux will scale *well* to 32 processors, since I just don't have any boxes with that many CPU's (man, I wish!). Linux 2.6 is said to be considerably better about that, though, than Linux 2.4, but again, I've just never tried it. I've never used SystemTap, either, so I'm not familiar with it. However, now that Tyan has motherboards that support sixteen Opteron cores on them, perhaps any scalability bottlenecks or other SMP issues in Linux will show themselves more and give Linus, etc. something more to chew on.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
Thanks for your explanation.
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