Re: JVM performance on Linux (vs. Solaris/Windows)

[David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

> Note they ran the benchmark on an Opteron 285 instead of a Xeon with 16 GB of 
> memory.    Opteron peformance currently **SUCKS** with 2.6 series kernels 
> under any kind of heavy I/O due to their cloning of the ancient 82489DX 
> architecture for I/O interrupt access and performance.  Looks like the test 
> was stakced against Linux from the start.  Should have used a Xeon system. 
> AMD needs to get their crappy I/O performance up to snuff.  Looking at the 
> test parameteres leads me to believe there was a lot of swapping on a system 
> with already poor I/O performance.

Jeff, I've seen several reccomendations from databasefolks (postgres and 
mysql) favoring Opterons over Xeons. this doesn't match your statement 
that Opteron performance sucks under any kind of I/O load. I don't 
understand how both can be correct.

David Lang

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