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From: dustin@bleu.west.spy.net. (Dustin Sallings)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Sparc vs. x86 speed (was Re: Linux vs BSD)
Date: 29 Jan 1997 14:00:48 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
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> I don't know if solaris is stable when running Oracle, but I do know
> that it is not as a mailserver with more than 1000 mails per hour. I've
> heard of poeple having trouble with 2000 mails per hour on an enterprise
> 6000.

	I get around 2000 an hour on an old Pentium 60 running Solaris
on a machine with about 4100 shell accounts, pop mail, etc...  While
Solaris isn't my favorite OS, it doesn't do a bad job.

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