Re: Linux -v- NT for 8.0.5 + OAS 4.0.7 + Apache/IIS ??

EB:

Are you using a web-based front-end?

After much thought Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:27:37 -0400, "Ewin Barnett" <ewin_at_acm.org> offered:

>A recent published test between NT and Linux did show that NT was faster at
>serving static web pages. However, it was pointed out that Linux presently
>has a single threaded TCP/IP stack and if this proves to be the bottleneck,
>you can be certain that some hack out there will want to make his reputation
>by writing a fast multithreaded stack.
>
>I've been running 8.0.5 on a 350 Mhz machine with 256 MB and it loads a
>stock database at over 600 transactions a second (with a commit every 100
>inserts). Not shabby.
>
>Ewin Barnett
>Ashland, MO
>
>
Received on Tue Jul 06 1999 - 21:35:41 CDT