Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:03:03 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Joachim Isaksson <Joachim.Isaksson@ibfs.com>, Luoqi Chen <luoqi@chen.ml.org>, Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT4 server 2.5 times faster than Linux Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904161002440.55462-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <19990415193124.U23745@lemis.com>
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How much RAM can we support, max? On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 15 April 1999 at 11:46:58 +0200, Joachim Isaksson wrote: > >>> 2) "The Linux kernel limited itself to use only 960 MB of RAM" > >> > >> The box had 4GB of RAM, but Linux got to use less than 1GB. Poor Linux. > >> This was such a fair test! :-( Do we recall a previous test where our > >> favourite OS used only a portion of the total RAM? > > > > Well, does Linux really limit itself to 960MB of RAM as they claim? > > If so, I'd say it's not an unfair test to not limit NT to the same low memory > > use. > > It looks as if they did. To quote > http://www.lwn.net/1999/features/MindCraft1.0.phtml, which I found to > be a well-reasoned summary, though I didn't check their reasoning: > > Non-issues > > A few complaints that have been sent to us probably do not > figure into the test results. We list them here in the hopes of > helping to slow their propagation and improve the quality of > information out there. > > Some complaints have been raised about the test being run on > a 4GB server, even though the Linux kernel, in its default > form, can only use 960M of that. Patches can be applied to > make 2GB available fairly easily. But, in any case, they > claim that NT was limited (with the maxmem parameter) to 1G > of memory, so this aspect of the test was fair. It would have > been more straightforward of them, however, to have simply > remove the other 3G from the system. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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