Anyone running big SPARC boxes?

[Peter Bonivart]

Julian Field wrote:
> I am looking for the maximum figure the system could handle in a day, with
> all CPU's working 100% of the time all day. I am trying to produce some
> hardware specs for a big site, but I have never had any big SPARC boxes to
> run it on. All I've got is a Blade 100 and an Ultra-5, which don't really
> help very much :-)

I do 20' incoming a day with a cheap V210 with 1 CPU, see footer what's
running on it. No problem at all. The only time my queues back up it's
the outgoing one because the crappy Exchange servers are down again.
Jeff's system should be able to process a lot more. How much mail does
your client process? Let's start with that instead.

For a 2-way system you should look at the V240, it's the big brother of
the V210, it's the same system board with up to two CPU:s but they
expanded the chassis to 2U and fitted 2 power supplies, you can also
have 4 disks.

For a 4-way system look at the V440, it's much cheaper than the other
4-way system, the V480 and performs about the same. All these cheaper
Sun's have smaller on board caches but still large compared to PC HW.

After this it becomes not so cheap any more (V880 and up) so I would
recommend multiple servers of the above models before a bigger iron.
Always easier to upgrade the software with redundant servers than one
big one anyway.

I love Sun and would spend my vacation to help you with this if I can so
feel free to ask and I will try to give you the info you need.

By the way, I'm pushing very hard to implement MailScanner on a
commercial airline you all would know but I can't tell the name of. ;-)

--
/Peter Bonivart

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