Re: Linux betas NT in TPC testing, running Oracle8

Stephen Edwards <ja207030_at_primenet.com> writes:
>: It's sponsored by more than one company (unlike the Mindcraft study),
>: but I have to wonder if maybe Oracle deliberately cripples their NT
>: version somehow.
>
>The test is completely bogus. But I'm not suprised in the slightest.
>
>"No specific operating system tuning was done, all the default NT services
>were running, with the default priorities and system parameters."
>
>Oh no... not biased in the slightest.</SARCASM>

Biased, no. Bogus, yes.

At least it's a fair benchmark in that they tested both operating systems "out of the box," giving both machines equal attention (i.e. none), whereas the Mindcraft benchmark was unfair in that NT got a lot more tuning attention than Linux did. However, it is completely useless as a real-world benchmark because anyone who runs Oracle who cares one iota about performance is going to perform *some* amount of tuning, and get completely different results. At least the Mindcraft survey is useful reading if you run NT servers and want to know how to tune them up to the hilt.

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Shimpei Yamashita               <http://www.submm.caltech.edu/%7Eshimpei/>