RE: Does anyone run test win vs. linux and can share how muchfaster is linux than windows, please?

Unless you have the 3D Pipes screen saver on. <grin> Jim

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org on behalf of Billy Verreynne (JW) Sent: Tue 8/9/2005 11:09 PM
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Subject: RE: Does anyone run test win vs. linux and can share how muchfaster is linux than windows, please?  

Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_gmail.com] wrote:

> System calls happen *much* faster on linux.

Disagree.

> When tested on like hardware, Linux is ~ 100% faster.

I will not call running perl, designed at core on Unix for Unix, a valid testbed for Windows vs Linux performance. :-)

Also keep in mind that a test like that has very little real-world meaning. But hey, I'm not going to defend Windows. I prefer Linux. But I stand by what I said. Performance is not a function of the operating system. The impact that the actual o/s has on performance is negligble when looking at issues such as configuration, software design, implementation and so on.

Anyone that thinks that deploying Oracle on Linux will result in a faster system than deploying Oracle on Windows on the same h/w platform, is sorely mistaken.

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Billy


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