Re: Linux vs. Windows performance.

Rick Denoire <100.17706_at_germanynet.de> wrote in message news:<3hb74054jo0je3c1l1vdd1hb1gq3dni4le_at_4ax.com>...
> Michael Rothwell <marothwellRemoveThis_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >Has anyone taken an Identical Windows box and Linux box (same hardware
> >configuration) and tested Oracle performance? I'm looking for some real
> >world examples if I move from Windows 2k to linux with Oracle 9i. The
> >box currently has 2 1.8 CPUs with 4 disks and 1 G ram. OLTP system with
> >tables using about 30 G of space. About 40 - 100 concurrent users, but
> >this may double soon. Can I expect better performance from the Linux box?
>
> Go to
> http://www.interealm.com/technotes/roby/pentmark.html
> Impressive comparison.

I'm glad as heck someone finally published such a thing. A bit thin in the exposition of methodology for sceptical replication though, unless I missed something.

jg

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