Sparc10/512 and Solaris

2007-12-25 8:24:00

: We are looking at upgrading a Sparc 10/41 to a faster machine. The

: favourite is a Sparc 10/512. In theory this requires Solaris 2, is

: this the full and complete truth ? I think I remember a rumour

: that you could run 4.1.3 on such a machine, but Sun would not support

: that configuration and you didn't get the benefit of the kernel

: multi-threading built into Solaris 2.

: My main problem with Solaris 2 is that I don't think there are

: Solaris 2 versions of the packages we run on this machine yet.

: Thanks in advance

: Jon Piesing

: Philips Research Labs, Redhill, UK

Most of the answers I received say that 4.1.3 just works. There were also

a few statements of sympathy about packages not running on Solaris 2.

The count for the various answers I have received is :-

"It works fine" 4

"It boots but crashes sometimes" 1

"Sun say it crashes, we are only running 1 CPU until our software

runs under Solaris 2" 1

Other observations include that on single jobs it runs slower than a 10/51.

Thanks to :-

What we intend to do is try it and see if it crashes too much for us. If so

then we will remove one CPU and give our Sparc 10/30 a temporary upgrade

until the packages we need run on Solaris 2.

Jon

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