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about Sun, Solaris 10 and Java Workstation w2100z -- Posts with "sunshine" in titles will praise SUNW, Solaris 10 or w2100z. Posts with "sunspot" will complain. Other posts will fall somewhere in-between.
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2005-11-25
sunshine - partitioning
Solaris has been a mainframe OS for awhile. psradm, prctl, prset, pbind, etc gives users awesome power of processor allocation. Users can divide up system allocation for projects, dynamically change resource allocations on running processes & LWPs, start/stop CPUs all without impacting the rest of the processes on the system. Truly Solaris' power is awe inspiring.
(However I cannot imagine how I'd use this power on w2100z workstation -- probably more powerful than most x86 servers. Keyword here is workstation. I don't have dozens of CPUs as in E10K and I am not going to bother binding processes to one CPU or the other. There are only a modest number of LWPs (300 or so) and 100 or so processes. It's easy to understand how CMT, Niagra, etc will make better servers. I'd be very interested in how they will give me a better desktop.)
At 13:41 by Jay 
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Jay Han