Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:33:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: drkhoe@gmsnet.com Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, Michael Slater <mikey@iexpress.net.au>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fact or Fiction (Unix vs NT) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904150933130.28512-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199904150654.XAA23108@gms.gmsnet.com>
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Plus they shoulda tested freebsd properly configured - I could not get anywhere near the performance I get from freebsd out of a linux box no matter what I tried. On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Dr. Mosh wrote: > >> > LOS GATOS, Calif., April 13. Today, Mindcraft released the results > >> > of a study comparing the performance of Red Hat Linux 5.2 (updated > >> > to the Linux 2.2.2 kernel) and Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 > >> > operating systems. According to the report, Windows NT Server > >> > provides over three and a half times the performance of Linux as a > >> > Web server. Furthermore, the report shows that when testing Windows > >> > NT Server and Linux as file servers, Windows NT Server provides over > >> > two and a half times the performance of Linux. The full report, > >> > including all of the details needed to reproduce the tests, is on > >> > Mindcraft's Web site at: > >> > > >> > http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html. > >> > > > What I find interesting about this whole article is that it was "sponsored" > by Microsoft, and if you look under their Apache configuration, > MaxSpareServers = 290 > > That means it would fire up potentially 290 spare threads for each > request, in effect throttling Linux's kernel... > > This puts their whole Linux/Unix know how in doubt, also, they claim Linux > only used 960megs of the 4gigs of RAM, when a kernel recompile could've fixed > the problem. I doubt if they understood the effective use of swap space > either... > > -The Doc > > -- > ------ drkhoe@gmsnet.com -------------- ++++++ ---------------------- > ///// http://progmetal.gmsnet.com ----------------==== Unix systems - > C/C++ video game engine development =><=============== Administration > ===================== Intranet/Internet Engineering ================= > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Hovey Chief Network Administrator BuffNET More Than Just a Connection! ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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