Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:56:29 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Gary Schrock <root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT4 server 2.5 times faster than Linux Message-ID: <199904151856.LAA85934@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:45:31 EDT." <4.2.0.32.19990415144237.00a84aa0@eyelab.msu.edu>
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I am trying to suggest to plug the hole that got Linux into trouble : Tuning configuration documentation, sample harware configuration and software configuration for a high performance web server and preferred mailing list to contact for performance or tuning questions. The later is important for in the past people have posted on usenet and their queries have gone unanswered or worse they didn't know where to send their questions to . > At 11:28 AM 4/15/99 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > >That article mentioned that getting the linux tuning parameters was scattered > >all > >over the place and it also mentioned that getting hold of a technical person > >was difficult . > > Well, I'd have to argue that those points probably are somewhat valid > (although I don't think it takes *too* much searching to at least come up > with some optimizations for linux). However, it did clearly point out the > fact that the tests were run with a highly tuned nt server and a linux > kernel that wasn't really tuned at all. It also pointed out that on a > platform that's on the lower end of the spectrum that linux will > consistently outperform nt. > > > Gary Schrock > root@eyelab.msu.edu > -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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