[ILUG] NT Vs Linux Benchmark Part 2, the return of NT?????

[David Murphy]

Quoting <383005DA.95E2100D at online.ie>
by "John P. Looney" <jplooney-mutt at online.ie>:

> Robert Sweetnam wrote:

> > The second benchmark results are available at the following
> > http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/openbench1.html A bit fairer
> > this time but the results are similar, Still I think I'd prefer
> > stability over negligible performance gains.

> I couldn't but note that "June 30,1999" was up at the top of the
> document. It was used by a lot of linux heads, to start looking for
> performance bottlenecks. Hopefully, we'll see all this work in a few
> months - when 2.4 comes out, and when the application use the new
> hooks it introduces...

Although I only skimmed it, the impression I got from reading it was
"Neither OS demonstrated much in the way of MP scalability" there's a
quote in there that a 4-way NT system provided a 107% performance gain
over a 1-way NT system - I'm pretty sure a 4-way Sun does a trifle
better than twice the performance of a 1-way system!

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