Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2001 09:17:11 +0100 | From | Sean Hunter <> | Subject | Re: Linux scalability? |
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Why would you want to run a web server with 8 processors rather than four webservers with 2 each?
Sean
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:24:48AM +0200, Sasi Peter wrote: > Hi! > > I am just writing an essay, an have mentioned TUX as a performance and > scalability linearity recort holder with TUX, referencing the specweb99 > website summary page: > > http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/web99.html > > However, taking a closer look, it turns out, that the above statement > holds true only for 1 and 2 processor machines. Scalability already > suffers at 4 processors, and at 8 processors, TUX 2.0 (7500) gets beaten > by IIS 5.0 (8001), and these were measured on the same kind of box! > > How come, TUX is soooo good at the lowend (1 and 2 CPUs), and scales this > bad? > > -- > SaPE - Peter, Sasi - mailto:sape@sch.hu - http://sape.iq.rulez.org/ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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