Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 07:47:50 -0400 From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> To: Peter McGarvey <Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel Reentrancy - NT vs Linux Message-ID: <377A03E6.4EF73BF8@charm.net> References: <001e01bec2e6$6f58a6a0$24603fc1@brick.it-dept.rncm.ac.uk>
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Peter McGarvey wrote: > > I like the line on the MS Website that claims NT Server offers a "price > performance advantage over Linux"... > > How's this? > > Anyway this is a FreeBSD list so I'd like to see the same figures for NT vs. > FreeBSD. > > BTW, is the FreeBSD kernel reentrant? > > Actually, If you ask me it doesn't really matter. It's only really an issue > with multiple processors. For the cost of Windows NT Server with a dual CPU > machine you can have 2 FreeBSD machines (at least). Besides, FreeBSD > doesn't need to waste 90% of it's resources running a useless GUI. > > TTFN, FNORD > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Peter McGarvey, Networks Manager | email: Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk > Royal Northern College of Music | tel: +44 (0)161 907 5218 > 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, | fax: +44 (0)161 273 7611 > England M13 9RD | mobile: +44 (0)7887 990564 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dutch Collins > > Sent: 30 June 1999 03:25 > > To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Kernel Reentrancy - NT vs Linux > > > > > > If anyone is tasked to evaluate an OS for server applications you may > > want to check this out. I was not aware that Linux Kernel code was not > > reentrant. Well 'they' say it is fixed in 2.2, but it isn't. Now I have > > to find more info on the BSD kernel. Study? Where except the code? > > > > NT is better by 600% > > http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/exec/compares/ntlinux.asp > > > > Why Linux failed. > > http://www.ntmag.com/Magazine/Article.cfm?ArticleID=5048 > > > > -dutch 0730 EDT -arg Well this is what I was thinking about. Microsoft is worried that Unix, not Linux will get the commerce business. That price/perfm. stuff is top notch BS with a big Bull. The FreeBSD 3.2 .src is somewhere on my CD. As far as I will quess - yes, or should be reentrant. I went to sun micro site (www.sun.com) for a while and will have a copy of Solaris 7 soon (for my other 486 box). Odd - my copy of Limux RH 5.2 is still in the box. Something in the docs turned me to FreeBSD - Real Unix. To make a shot story long - got to read the .src kernel comments. Also, sun.com has some commerce news patting themselves on the back about being NT tested. Go figure. -dutch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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