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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Avoid Windows NT for database server - says the White paper!!
Windows NT is a resource hog more suitable for graphics and win32 GUI apps.
Linux is much faster than windows NT in console mode without x-windows.
For database servers DO NOT use screensavers, windows, X-windows as they
may consume certain amount of cpu.
Whatever applies to database servers also applies for web-servers, email
servers, newsservers where
graphic is NOT needed and you need only command line console mode on
terminal.
Windows NT is very good replacement for window95. (Avoid windows 98)
The paper at http://www.interbase.com/tech/icon/index.html says so --->
"Avoid Windows NT
UNIX and Linux are better as server platforms than Windows NT. In
scalability, security, stability, and
especially performance, UNIX and Linux contain more mature and proven
technology. In all these areas, UNIX
and Linux are demonstrating their superiority over Microsoft's
resource-hungry server operating system. Some
of the areas in which the deficiencies of Windows NT result in
performance inferiority include:
NT makes poor use of memory and virtual memory
NT has a poor multiprocess prioritization model
NT has bugs in its process scheduling on SMP hardware
NT requires much more CPU and memory resources to match UNIX/Linux
performance
The IT industry is realizing that the "ease of use" of Windows NT is
more than offset by the high cost of
ownership of that platform. Downtime, excessive hardware resource
requirements, frustrating bugs,
undocumented features, and mysterious performance problems continue to
plague Windows NT. Someday
perhaps Windows NT will be better as a server operating system, but
today UNIX and Linux are clearly better.
Use Windows NT for workstations, to use its strengths to best advantage.
NT and UNIX/Linux computers can
easily share a network.
InterBase was created on UNIX platforms, and has recently released
version 5.1.1 on the popular Linux
operating system. The InterBase versions for Linux and SCO OpenServer
are priced the same as the version for
Windows NT, and run on the same Intel-based hardware. "
Received on Tue Dec 01 1998 - 00:00:00 CST
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