Re: [TCLUG:5285] NTS4 vs. Linux study from Mindcraft.

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>]

If you guys haven't read the fine print yet, this survey was sponsored by
Microsoft. I have yet to see a survey which is sponsered by one of the
companies who's products are being tested be truely accurate. Oh well, we
all know the truth. 

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Nate Carlson
the infinite loop
natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Scott Dier wrote:

> Hello, If you havent seen on Slashdot allreaday -- 
> 
> Mindcraft has released a report saying that NT is faster for web and file
> serving.  Go read it.  Check out some of the graphs.  Like the apache one,
> where it just drops off in the middle of the graph.  Why?
> 
> Because Mindcraft is a bunch of inept sysadmins.  So when your boss goes
> NT is better than Linux, you can tell them about these facts.
> 
> Mindcraft turned off "widelinks" in samba.   From the original author of
> Samba he said that with it turned off it takes 6 more function calls to
> perform operations.  That sounds like it would probally run faster
> (Someone should get around and prove this.)
> 
> Secondly, the apache stuff can be explained by one thing : File
> Descriptors.  You can change them to higher numbers if you want, but
> Mindcraft left them at the standard number.  So while the computer *was
> not* hitting its max CPU, it was waiting for a file descriptor.  Mindcraft
> could have reconfigured the kernel and had /much/ better performance and
> see that Apache, while it might not be faster -- scales much better than
> IIS does.  I saw an article from a /long/ time ago on a zdnet site that
> showed apache scaling from 100 to a ton more (1000+ i think) as a flat
> line for latency of getting pages.  Thats cool :)  
> 
> Really, I'm throwing this forth as a discussion object and as something so
> when the FUD hits the non-techies and they ask you about it you have
> something concrete that you know is right. 
> 
> The mindcraft survey is at -
> www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
> 
> 
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