Re: Linux betas NT in TPC testing, running Oracle8

In article <7hatok$79i$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>, r.e.ballard_at_usa.net writes:
>In article <V8#ifV9m#GA.181_at_pet.hiwaay.net>,
> "nik" <ndsimpso_at_ingr.com> wrote:
>>
>> r.e.ballard_at_usa.net wrote in message <7guvu2$bi9$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>> >In article <m1emkwpwy5.fsf_at_inconnu.isu.edu>,
>> > Craig Kelley <ink_at_inconnu.isu.edu> wrote:
>> >> r.e.ballard_at_usa.net writes:

...

>> >It's rather interesting that when you
>> >Compare Linux to NT using nearly any
>> >metric other than training expense in
>> >the first 60 days, Linux comes up a
>> >clear winner. This goes beyond simple benchmarks as well.

Who is doing the comparison?

>> > Web Server Benchmarks - Linux carries as
>> > much as 8 times the capacity
>> > of Windows NT. At very low levels, NT gives
>> > slightly better response times, but Linux/Apache
>> > response time is nearly flat or linear while NT
>> > deteriorates at an exponential rate.

>> Other than you're opinion, what actual real data
>> like SPECWeb results do you
>> have to back this claim up?

>I had some in the archives. I'll look them up.

Try looking at:

        http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,401970,00.html

This is a ZDNet comparison of NT, Netware, Linux and Solaris on as near as possible the same hardware. In the WebBench tests Linux came in last, by a reasonable margin. In NetBench (file serving via samba for Solaris and Linux) Linux and Solaris were roughly th same, last behind NT and Novell. The bad Solaris score was due to an extremely slow file rename time, NT and Solaris were both about 4 times faster than Linux on file reads.

>To be fair, this 8x performance gain was on a single processor machine
>with 128 meg and 2 hard drives. NT was thrashing it's brains out
>while Linux purred.

You can always find a benchmark which will show your particular platform in a good light.

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