[OSM-dev] Rendering on a SPARC

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

On Friday 21 January 2011 08:21:48 Maarten Deen wrote:
> But joking aside, also in real terms it is not a superfast machine. A  
> single Ultrasparc III at 1.2GHz will be outperformed by any desktop machine 
> available now. Probably by a factor 5 to 10. So even having it fully loaded 
> with 24 processors will not make it really fast.   

The selling point is the amount of RAM that baby has. I cannot believe I might 
be able to load it into memory.


>  My advice would be to start with Solaris. I'm assuming all dependencies
>  are also available there, or can be compiled. I've never been a fan of
>  other OS'es than SunOS on a Sun.

Meh. First thing we're gonna try is boot Debian on that thing. Oh, the joy of 
fiddling with Debian... :-)


Cheers,
-- 
----------------------------------
Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es> <ivan at geonerd.org>

Hay labios tan finos que en vez de besar, cortan.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/attachments/20110121/7a1fcaa2/attachment.pgp>