Hi folks,

I was wondering if someone could shed light on the relative
performance of a Sun Sunfire V490 with 16Gb and 8-CPU (4 x 2-core
chips I'm guessing) in comparison with a Dell R710 with, let's say the
same 16Gb and also 8 cores.

The Sun needs replacing and the R710 is put forward as an option. The
Sun is currently against a big fat SAN, and the Dell will hook into
the same.

The boxes are purely for Informix engines; previous is V9's and 10's
on the Sun, and the Dells will have 11.70 The Suns are coping
acceptably with their load, averaging around 20% CPU idle across all
the cores, so there's no obvious need to significantly outgun their
performances.

Any clues about relative performance as a replacement would be most
welcome.

Cheers

PS hey guys, how are you all these days? Gainfully and happily
employed I hope?

You will be trading 2.1GHZ SPARC processors for 3 or 3.5 GHZ Intel
processors. The new machine should be significantly faster.

Art

Art S. Kagel
Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com)
Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/

Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and
do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other
organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by
inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals
affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Andrew Hamm <ahamm (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote:

On Oct 27, 6:17*pm, Art Kagel <art.ka... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Thanks for the speedy reply. I was expecting at least a factor of a
few between the Intel/PC based architecture and any Sun server. The
intel boxes really compete on equal footings these days? I'm a bit
surprised...

So where's everybody these days? Traffic looks very light, and not a
Clown or Gumby to be seen - at least on the first page. Is Usenet past
it's use-by date? Where's all the Informix forum action now?

I get far more posts from the IIUG's IDS list, maybe on the order of 20-1.

--EEM

I think most people are participating in IOD - Vegas event
(except for us kkkkkkkkk)


Em 27/10/2011 08:39, Everett Mills escreveu:

--

Alexandre Marini

Tecnologia da Informação - DBA

SEFAZ-MS / SGI-UGSR / Sistemas IBM-Informix

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IBM Certified System Administrator - Informix Dynamic Server V10 / V11 /
V11.70

IBM Information Management Informix Technical Professional v3

Several folk, including most of the IBMers are here at IOD and most of the
traffic is now on the IIUG IDS forum (about 1000 posts/month).

Yes, modern Intel x86/64 boxes running Linux can compete favorably with
anything else out there. Only at the top end w/100s of cores do the Sun,
HP, and IBM P-series machines exceed their capacity.

Art

Art S. Kagel
Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com)
Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/

Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and
do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other
organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by
inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals
affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the
entities themselves.



On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Andrew Hamm <ahamm (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote:

On Oct 27, 11:39*pm, Everett Mills <Everett.Mi... (AT) nationalbeef (DOT) com>
wrote:
I wish I could remember my IIUG membership number; that plus no longer
having the email address I used for the registration, I can't get into
the member area. A flaming tragedy. I guess a re-reg is on the cards.

On Oct 28, 2:13*am, Art Kagel <art.ka... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

I'm preparing a big terabyte-sized migration in concert with
horrendously tiny downtime requirements, so I'll be asking a fair few
dumb questions to cover my rusty memory on replication trickery too.

Cheers