Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jul 1997 21:43:30 +0200 | | From | Philippe Strauss <> | | Subject | Re: InfoWorld web server shootout |
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On Jul 8, Erik Troan wrote > On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Anyway I cannot duplicate their lockup. My ethernet spent the entire > > night jammed serving pages off apache 1.1.3 with no keepalives doing > > as many requests in parallel as will fit. > > The InfoWorld machine was getting hit at 100mbits on three DE500 cards, > simultaneously. They wanted to use four, but they couldn't get a kernel > to recognize all four (though we had it working w/ four before the machine > left). > > One of the big problems with this review was the SMP problems. In hindsight, > it was a *big* mistake for us to send them an SMP machine. That caused them > to have to reinstall the machine, and configure everything themselves. When > they did this, they lost the fourth ethernet card. > > The people who did this review were *not* Linux hackers. I'm actually pretty > pleased with the review, as it did focus on the working machine. They could > have complained about the numerous hardware and software problems they had, > but they really did focus on the positives. > > I do apologize for this grey-eye for Linux (calling it a black eye seems a > bit harsh); we at Red Hat should have been more agressive in working with > InfoWorld on this. I'd be happy to address any specific questions on the > machine or testing methodology, though I may not know all of the answers. > Please ask them in private email however, as I don't often read this list.
Just a wild guess: Did they put a "mem=256M" kernel parameter and was the box used able to cache more than 64M of RAM ? It may sound foolish, but who knows..
> > Erik > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | "Psychopaths kill for no reason: I kill for money." -- Grosse Pointe Blank | > | | > | Erik Troan = ewt@redhat.com = ewt@sunsite.unc.edu |
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