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SubjectRe: Anti-Linux SMP FUD
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Dick Balaska wrote on Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:07:00 MET:
+> Also sprach Chip Salzenberg --- 02:16 PM 1/30/99 -0500
+> >According to Matthew Kirkwood:
+> >> A lot of kernel calls are still serialised (the read and write paths, for
+> >> example), but work to reduce this is proceeding [...]
+> >
+> >Really? I thought it was simply irrelevant, as long as the path from
+> >syscall -> FS -> I/O is short enough.
+>
+> It is just that, FUD.

YES! - M$ is out there now and tries to overcome Linux. It's old David
against Goliath again. - And this time David will win. - Again! ;-)

+> Here is an article "Linux and Samba kick NT's butt".
+> http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,387506,00.html
+> The article is not about SMP but shows general Linux I/O to be
+> twice as fast as NT. (we already knew that :)
+>
[..]

+> However, i expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal
+> benchmarks and get really really pissed.

Dear Dick,

you forgot to mention that the "heros" from ZD-Net (well known M$-Zombies)
tested NT 4.0 against a Linux Kernel 2.0.35/36 - not against the current
2.2.0.- And the test was on a UP system. - How boring! They should
test it with an NT-SMP-Box against Linux 2.2.0 - SMP. I guess Bill G.
will let have his developers a famous last cigarette in front
of a white wall if he ever will see the results for such comparison.

+> Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux *really* start
+> to cut into M$'s server market share.

YES! - This seems to be GRANTED since Linux 2.2.0 is out now! :-)

Keep up the good work, guys!

Best regards,

Herbert


"Why aren't our NT-people in this meeting?" - "We are talking here about systems
with which we have troubles when they are running NOT." Two of my coworkers in a
meeting about a scheduled powerdown for crucial servers of a major german bank.


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