May
Die-Hard Linux Shop Turns to the Solaris OS
Linux loyalist Real Time Matrix decided to make the change to the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) since it provided them with significantly better throughput.
A head-to-head competition pitting the Fedora Linux distribution, which the company uses for production, against Solaris 10 OS proved Sun’s OS had 50 times the throughput.
Real Time Matrix Founder and CEO Jeff Whitehead told SearchEnterpriseLinux.com’s Megan Santosus that his company processes up to 2 million new RSS and XML articles per day through its data service and 15 million Web requests per month for other services.
“On a 64-bit AMD processor and Fedora, we could process approximately 200 matches per second of RSS,” Whitehead said. “With Solaris 10 on the (Sun Fire) T1000, this match rate jumped to 10,000 per second.”
After the head-to-head comparison, Real Time Matrix recompiled its software to run on the Solaris OS.”We were nervous about moving to Solaris,” Whitehead said. However, he reports that it was surprising how easy the OS was to use.
“Developers needed to learn some new shell commands. They also needed to clean up some loose practices with security,” Whitehead said. “The benefits have been worth the learning curve. We invest most of the time [in] tuning and preventive maintenance.”
Real Time Matrix now uses one Sun Fire T1000 Server, a pair of Sun Fire T2000 Servers, and one Sun StorageTek 5220 NAS Appliance for all the company’s data processing, which includes its custom matching service and re-broadcasting engine. The company still runs Linux on standalone boxes.
Read all the details on how and why this die-hard Linux shop has embraced Solaris OS at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com.
