Probably not a great choice for networker. We have a linux box and are in
the process of migrating to an HP rp4410 and a Quantum PX510 with 8 LTO3
drives. I love Linux but it seems to have the same problem that Solaris 8
has. You seem to be limited to a total of 1Gb/sec network bandwidth
regardless of how many NICs you have running at the same time. Although if
1Gb/sec is all you need then ignore what I just said. If I were you I'd go
with another Sun server.

Our new server hums along just great at a bit over 160MB/sec (right around
600 GB/hour) using 2 GB NICs. Just getting over a few teething problems but
the performance is far better than our Linux server. But then is just had
SDLT drives so it's like comparing apples and oranges.

Ken

On 6/1/06, Varaldi, Marcelo <Marcelo.Varaldi AT brou.com DOT uy> wrote:

I'm in the process of buying a Linux server for substitution of a Sun E450
(2 Ultrasparc 450Mhz, 2Gb RAM).

The actual server performs poorly mainly because of the slow performance
of
de SBUS architecture and CPUs.

We will add 4 LTO3 drives (FChannel 4Gb) to 2 StorageTek L700 libraries.
The
server will have 2 Gbit Nics with trunking to maximize throughput for LAN
backups.

Does anyone know if Networker uses threads under Linux? If so, it would be
beneficial to have multicore CPU's?

I found similar thread but nothing about similar scenarios. Sorry if this
has been covered.

Thanks in advance.

Ing. Marcelo Varaldi
Brou
Uruguay

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