From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 19 7:13:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE82C154BE for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 07:13:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24168; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:10:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <371B3961.D87FA1F9@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:10:41 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Youse Cc: Dennis , chris@calldei.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT4 server 2.5 times faster than Linux References: <199904152225.SAA20324@etinc.com> <99041909500702.38298@ns1.cybersites.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Youse wrote: > > The ability of NT to take better advantage of multiple processors is a function > of design, rather than "working with Intel". NT follows the microkernel design > model, with message passing, which is much easier to spread over multiple > processors than a typical monolithic kernel design. Please note that NTs multiprocessor efficiency is nowhere near that of Solaris. Perhaps it will get better in the Win2K bug, since Microsoft has gained the assistance of Sequent, who actually know how to do SMP. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message