On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 02:24:12 -0800, vasu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a windows/intel platform administrator but i also have a solaris
> box in my network. the machine is sun ultrasparc 10 with solaris 7 on
> it. It has 512 mb ram. One of the users in the network wants a solaris
> box with better performance for his application, i thought of
> suggesting to upgrade memory from 512mb to 1GB but i really donno how
> to find out about the specs of this existing box. the memory i got to
> know when i rebooted the machine. our company is mainly into asic
> design and tool testing and support. i really need to decide at the
> earliest and proceed with a sales order. If you use /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v, you'll get a lot of
information about the host.
You really need to dig into what the constraint that the user is finding
really is. It may well be that it isn't memory but disk performance or CPU
constraint. sar, vmstat and iostat (or Glance if you have it) will be
great insight for you.
Saundo
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