Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:54:44 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: drkhoe@gmsnet.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: <371627E4.C818EABE@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904150933130.28512-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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Steve Hovey wrote: > > 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. There is no mass hype associated with FreeBSD and they also aren't feeling market pressure from FreeBSD. I was in our Barns and Nobel bookstore and they have more pure Linux books than they do NT. The only generic Unix programming book was Greg's. I would say that MS went David hunting and let Golaith win one. If a system doesn't have a "+" over other systems somewhere, they disappear and Linux does not appear to be going away and neither is NT. I had a Staff Scientist at a US National Laboratory tell me a few years ago that he figured that it takes about a year for users to figure out which computer will run their program better. It may be an Apple Power Mac, an Intel running Windows, a Sun, a massively parallel, or whatever but after the first year the users know which machine will run their problems the best. The users have to have a heterogenous enviroment before they can begin the discovery process. You have funnel vision in any other enviroment. Kent > > 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! > ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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