On Dec 12, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> | On Dec 12, 2006, at 5:53 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> | >> I think Solaris counts very well.
> | >
> | > Yes, if your needs are modest.
> |
> | Or even if they are not.  Solaris scales to over 128 CPUs usefully
> | and has had more than a decade of work on fine-grained kernel
> | locking, whereas the BSD's are still trying to move away from the
> | "one big lock" paradigm.
>
> Nobody mentioned anything about kernels here or scalability here.

Did you not state "Yes, if your needs are modest." above?  If you now  
claim that you weren't talking about the scalability of Solaris, then  
exactly what did you mean by this remark?

> We are strictly talking about userland utilities being unable to
> handle large datasets because they are compiled in 32 bit mode.

*You* might be strictly talking about userland utilities, Christos;  
claiming to speak for every poster to this thread is unlikely to  
either be factually accurate or fair to other people.

-- 
-Chuck