The German c't Magazine has also conducted a comparative benchmark between NT 4.0 SP3 with MS IIS 4.0 and Linux (SuSE 6.1) with Apache 1.3.6, both running on a Siemens Primergy 870 Web Server (4x Pentium II Xeon @ 450 MHz, 2 GB RAM with a 4 disc-RAID-5 system).
(Mindcraft used a RAID-0 system, which might be even faster, but doesn't in any way guard your data if bad luck strikes - incidentially, one HD died during the test...:)
Anyhow, the test showed again that NT is faster when it comes to serving static pages, especially when using SMP... but then again, the test also showed that Linux smokes NT when it comes to CGI - but they also warned that NT users might use ASP instead of CGI, which is hard to compare... still, it's funny that CGI under NT was rather weak - or is that a way of MS guiding people to use ASP?
Another thing the test showed was that NT was only leading when it could serve all static pages directly from memory; it fell behind Linux when it had to read the files from disk due to insufficient disk cache...
I'd tell everyone to go look at the results themselves, but I can't seem to find this story on their web server... they mention it being in the newest issue, but sadly they didn't put it online... *GRRR* : /
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The German c't Magazine has also conducted a comparative benchmark between NT 4.0 SP3 with MS IIS 4.0 and Linux (SuSE 6.1) with Apache 1.3.6, both running on a Siemens Primergy 870 Web Server (4x Pentium II Xeon @ 450 MHz, 2 GB RAM with a 4 disc-RAID-5 system).
(Mindcraft used a RAID-0 system, which might be even faster, but doesn't in any way guard your data if bad luck strikes - incidentially, one HD died during the test... :)
Anyhow, the test showed again that NT is faster when it comes to serving static pages, especially when using SMP... but then again, the test also showed that Linux smokes NT when it comes to CGI - but they also warned that NT users might use ASP instead of CGI, which is hard to compare... still, it's funny that CGI under NT was rather weak - or is that a way of MS guiding people to use ASP?
Another thing the test showed was that NT was only leading when it could serve all static pages directly from memory; it fell behind Linux when it had to read the files from disk due to insufficient disk cache...
I'd tell everyone to go look at the results themselves, but I can't seem to find this story on their web server... they mention it being in the newest issue, but sadly they didn't put it online... *GRRR* : /
Since when can you celebrate a whole day at a specific time? Seems strange to me...
Ho well... I wonder if they're celebrating e day, and i day (whoops...), and how about g day? =)
np: Jimi Tenor - Xinotepe Heat (Organism)