I have an Athlon 500 (Biostar MoBo) from October, hardly a month after they were released, and never had a problem with it. It flies in every respect; gotta love those fast kernel compiles. the 2.3 and 2.4 kernel has nice Athlon stuff in it which seems quite stable (well, I've never had a problem). I've been running 2.3 for months now, and it's all good. Also the next version of GCC (EGCS??) will have a -march=athlon switch for Athlon optimizations. You can get the latest CVS version of GCC from the codesorcery website (don't compile a kernel with it though, bad things happen...:)
The network cards were Intel EtherPro 100Mbps, 4 of them. It is listed at the end of the report.
Looking at the Linux kernel source, this particular card should have good support. I'm sure that the driver is fine and performance was great... I'm also bet they only used one of the four NICs in Linux...
So they have 4 network cards in that nice little Dell machine, and they specifically mention "Used the affinity tool to bind one NIC to each CPU", so my question is whether they even bothered to use the other 3 NICs under Linux.
It seems to me that Linux with one network card doing only 2.5 times under NT with 4 network cards sounds about right. Give Linux 4 network cards and you get performace that easily blows NT away.
To use multiply NICs you have to use the network driver as a module I believe, did they bother to do that? I can't imagine Red Hat's installer "How many network cards do you have, but then again maybe it does, I'm a Slackware kinda person...
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I have an Athlon 500 (Biostar MoBo) from October, hardly a month after they were released, and never had a problem with it. It flies in every respect; gotta love those fast kernel compiles. the 2.3 and 2.4 kernel has nice Athlon stuff in it which seems quite stable (well, I've never had a problem). I've been running 2.3 for months now, and it's all good. Also the next version of GCC (EGCS??) will have a -march=athlon switch for Athlon optimizations. You can get the latest CVS version of GCC from the codesorcery website (don't compile a kernel with it though, bad things happen... :)
The network cards were Intel EtherPro 100Mbps, 4 of them. It is listed at the end of the report.
Looking at the Linux kernel source, this particular card should have good support. I'm sure that the driver is fine and performance was great... I'm also bet they only used one of the four NICs in Linux...
So they have 4 network cards in that nice little Dell machine, and they specifically mention "Used the affinity tool to bind one NIC to each CPU", so my question is whether they even bothered to use the other 3 NICs under Linux.
It seems to me that Linux with one network card doing only 2.5 times under NT with 4 network cards sounds about right. Give Linux 4 network cards and you get performace that easily blows NT away.
To use multiply NICs you have to use the network driver as a module I believe, did they bother to do that? I can't imagine Red Hat's installer "How many network cards do you have, but then again maybe it does, I'm a Slackware kinda person...