Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael H. Warfield" <> | Subject | Re: Anti-Linux SMP FUD | Date | Mon, 1 Feb 1999 11:00:31 -0500 (EST) |
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Pat St. Jean enscribed thusly: > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Herbert Wengatz 42850 wrote: > >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 just had to pipe up on this one... I'm not sure what the timeline on > that was, but remember that with a traditional magazine you're looking at > a good month and a half to two month delay in getting articles to print. > It simply could have been that 2.2.0 wasn't out yet...
ZD-Net's not all bad. They have one up that LinuxWorld refered to as "Linux wins in a benchmark against NT".
http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,387506,00.html
Reads like a Linux kicks ass and takes names type article. Pretty good up there...
I like this paragraph from one of the charts:
] You might think that Linux would operate at a disadvantage here, ] but Linux kicks NT's butt. Only at the lightest loads does NT hold ] any advantage over the Linuxes. Once the load moves to 12 clients, ] all the Linux platforms take commanding leads over NT. At 32 ] clients, SuSE, the weakest Linux, has more than double NT's ] throughput, and Red Hat, the leader, extends its lead to almost 250 ] percent of NT's performance.
This is all UP stuff though... No SMP involved...
> Pat in Houston
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