Sun Solaris 2.6 and TPC-C benchmark

Check out http://www.sun.com/solaris/new/revguide/closerlook.html#performance Sun have increased the virtual memory page size for shared memory to 4Mb to reduce overhed of checkin page security attributes and to reduce VM address translation costs. They archieved 15,461 tpmC at $134/tpmC With 13,000 users! on an SMCC E4000 with 14 * 250 Mhz cpus and 5 Gbytes of memory! This was kept a bit quiet... -- David Williams