[Zope-dev] zeo on solaris

[Andreas Jung]

--On 8. Oktober 2007 08:48:54 +0200 Jodok Batlogg <jodok at lovelysystems.com> 
wrote:

>
> On 07.10.2007, at 21:42, Dieter Maurer wrote:
>
>> Jodok Batlogg wrote at 2007-10-7 12:09 +0200:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> it seems like we're going to deploy a pretty big installation on a
>>> combination of solaris / RHEL servers.
>>> the data storage of our application is based on ZODB (ZEO) and
>>> PostgreSQL (with STORM) plus NFS for extfile handling.
>>> so far it's planned to deploy ZEO, PostgreSQL and NFS on a fully
>>> redundant SUN Fire 440 with Solaris connected to a Hitachi/Sun
>>> StorEdge 9990 SAN.
>>> i know ZOPE has/had some issues on Solaris (http://www.zope.org/
>>> Members/glpb/solaris) we're talking about ZEO/PostgreSQL only...
>>
>> We are using Solaris in our backend (to run several ZEOs, postgres
>> and NFS).
>> Up to now, there have been no Solaris related problems.
>
> do you know about the performance? if you compare a modern, fast linux
> server - connected to the SAN as well?
> i think the solaris machine will perform well if you need to run multiple
> ZEOs...

Since ZEO is mostly IO-bound. Decent Sun hardware I've worked with was not 
much slower or faster than decent Linux systems. If you have multiple ZEO 
servers consider using dedicated drives in case of a setup with high IO.
But this applies to Linux as well..

Andreas
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