9 Feb
2013
9 Feb
'13
11:04 a.m.
On 02/09/2013 01:50 PM, mc68010 wrote:
The bottom dropped out very suddenly a few weeks ago due to a whole
bunch of systems coming off-lease, and leasing companies being stupid by
putting ALL of them up on eBay at the same time. As recently as two
months ago, T2000s couldn't be touched for less than about $500. They
shipped a LOT of those systems, and it seems the vast majority of them
were leased. Three leasing companies that I sometimes do business with
have contacted me in the past couple of weeks asking about them.
I just
installed that on a T2000. It's so "smoove" you have to spell
it with a "v". Very nice. You should see the hoops I have to jump
through to get Solaris (Oracle's Solaris) patches these days...that
company is just unbelievable. They've done great things for SPARC, but
unbelievably shitty things for Solaris. -Dave
It is really amazing how cheap the t1000 and t2000 are on ebay right
now. Everyone is dumping them. I saw a T1000 go for $49 the other day
and a T2000 for $125. I keep thinking about picking one up for fun. How
are you liking it ?
I love it so far. It's a tremendous amount of bang for the buck, in
particular. If you have a workload profile that involves lots of
threads or lots of processes, it will scream. If you're trying to run
one or two large things, it will be much less impressive. A "ps -ef" on
my production server (which runs Zones) usually returns between 800 and
1000 processes. For that type of workload, the T-series processors
really shine, as does Solaris' rather awesome threading
implementation...a separate kernel thread for each device instance,
etc...unbelievably smooth, fast systems under heavy load.
This is WAY off-topic. But we seem to be good at that.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA