Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Anti-Linux SMP FUD | Date | Mon, 01 Feb 1999 16:24:17 MET | From | Herbert Wengatz 42850 <> |
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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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