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Subject: Re: Does Solaris really scale this well?
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On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Dax Kelson wrote:

> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 11:53:16 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>
> To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: Does Solaris really scale this well?
>
>
> From:
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> http://www.itworld.com/Man/3828/020816mcnealy/
>
> Scott McNealy:
>
> "When you take a 99-way UltraSPARC III machine and add a 100th processor,
> you get 94 percent linear scalability. You can't get 94 percent linear
> scalability on your first Intel chip. It's very, very hard to do, and they
> have not done it."

you can't get 94% linear scalability also on Sparc III, to say the
truth...




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