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

[Martin J. Bligh]

> 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.

Looks to me like it was the same h/w for Linux as Solaris, so I don't
think that's much of an excuse ;-)

M.

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