The following are records of performance, specifications and achievements
for servers by Sun Microsystems[tm] running Solaris[tm].
Note: This document is not written by Sun.
Brendan Gregg, 03-Nov-2005, version 0.14.
This document is very much under construction. Once it becomes more populated (and interesting), it may end up hosted somewhere else that is easier for the Sun community to maintain.
Note: This page was written in 2005 and is no longer maintained. It is now part of my Crypt.
Contents
Records
Time
These are records related to time or duration.
The longest uptime was reported in October 2005 by Evan of Sydney, Australia:
$ uname -a SunOS syduftp01 5.6 Generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 $ uptime 5:02pm up 2001 day(s), 5:29, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.11, 0.11 |
Wow, and yes - Evan deliberately sent the "2001" day uptime as it had special significance. I think it needs a "uname -S hal9000".
Another impressive uptime, reported by Chris Wells of Melbourne, Australia:
alons069# uptime 7:56pm up 1291 day(s), 14:27, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.04, 0.04 alons069# uname -a SunOS alons069 5.5.1 Generic_103640-37 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1 |
And more uptimes, reported by Ron Soutter of Melbourne, Australia:
3:39pm up 1171 day(s), 13:26, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.17, 0.18 SunOS ctiexw01 5.6 Generic_105181-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4 System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Enterprise 450 (2 X UltraSPARC-II 400MHz) System clock frequency: 100 MHz Memory size: 2048 Megabytes |
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5:42pm up 1165 day(s), 10:23, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.16, 0.19 SunOS ctiexq01 5.6 Generic_105181-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4 System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Enterprise 450 (2 X UltraSPARC-II 400MHz) System clock frequency: 100 MHz Memory size: 3072 Megabytes 5:37pm up 1154 day(s), 15:50, 2 users, load average: 0.32, 0.44, 0.47 SunOS ctiexv01 5.6 Generic_105181-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4 System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Enterprise 450 (4 X UltraSPARC-II 400MHz) System clock frequency: 100 MHz Memory size: 4096 Megabytes |
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Specs
These are records related to the hardware specifications.
Sun Fire 15K: 106 CPUs, each up to a 1200MHz UltraSPARC[tm] III. |
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Sun Fire E25K: 26,423W. |
Sun Fire E25K: 89,838 BTU/hr (18 slots occupied). |
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Sun Fire F15K or E25K: 1142.6 kg / 2513.7 lb. |
Sun Fire F15K: 191.8 cm / 75.5 in. |
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| Sun's "Sizzle" - Secure SSL web server. It is about the size of a quarter (25 cents US), it has a 8-bit microprocessor, 128Kb of flash memory and 4Kb of RAM. |
Tuning
These are records related to tuning hardware or software in a particular way.
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This is the stardard server used for "Solaris Drag Racing", where admins have an hour and a WYSE interface to tune their server to boot the fastest. Unknown.
To qualify, this must be for booting the OS only (what the entire + OEM support usually installs), no extra software. Unknown.
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The current records are,
600 Zones: v880 4 CPUs, 8GB RAM, 342GB Disk. John Clingan. |
5:09.577 for the zoneadm install. It was a "Sparse Root Zone" on an F15k. Boyd Adamson.
bash-3.00# time zoneadm -z test install WARNING: /tmp/zones/test is on a temporary file-system. Preparing to install zone <test>. Creating list of files to copy from the global zone. Copying <2574> files to the zone. Initializing zone product registry. Determining zone package initialization order. Preparing to initialize <994> packages on the zone. Initialized <994> packages on zone. Zone <test> is initialized. Installation of these packages generated errors: <SUNWjhrt SUNWjhdev> The file </tmp/zones/test/root/var/sadm/system/logs/install_log> contains a log of the zone installation. real 5m9.577s user 2m0.537s sys 2m10.491s bash-3.00# prtdiag | head -3 System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Fire 15000 System clock frequency: 150 MHz Memory size: 24576 Megabytes |
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Misc
Miscellaneous records.
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