Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:35:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> Cc: murban@webzone.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nt outperforms Linux for web/file server? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906201530330.967-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990620105227.009bcf00@mail-r>
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You're also missing the fact that NT did kick Apache/Linux' ass in the test, and would have done so regardless what kernel patches/Apache tweaks were applied. Fact is, Apache's not a high performance web server, and the Linux kernel had severe flaws in its scheduler that caused it to flake out once a certain number of processes were active. In fact, even now, I fully expect IIS to outperform Linux/Apache or *BSD/Apache or */Apache on static file serving. I mean, yay Apache, but let's not get so full of Open Source happy juice that we're blind to reality... On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > You're behind by a few months. When this test first came out (and it was > NOT done by PC Magazine. It was done my mindcraft, an "independent" lab > which has given flawed comparisons in the past as well), there was a large > thread on how this comparison could have been messed up/altered to favor > NT. If you search the mailing list archives, you could probably find the > link to the step-by-step dissection of the flaws in the Mindcraft study. > > At 04:11 PM 1/3/1997 , Mike Urban wrote: > >I know this is a FreeBSD list, but this will probably be of interest to > >people here anyway. Has anyone seen Microsoft's report on the > >independant study that was done on the performance of NT vs Linux? > >According to their charts, graphs etc, NT blew Linux away in both file > >server and web server performance. I bring this up because unless there > >is a serious performance difference between Linux and FreeBSD, these > >test results would probably apply to FreeBSD as well.. > > > >I think the test was done by PC Magazine (hardly independant in my way > >of thinking since they recieve big advertising $ from Microsoft.). My > > >http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/exec/compares/ntlinux.asp > > --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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