Its not the fact that Linux SMP scales to 16... its the fact that the parties who are going to profit from this scalability, namely VA Research, have to do some tuning and benchmarks to make it a reality. I'm tired of seeing MS proxies wave their 4 processor benchmark resultss without a response from VA Research which has the test hardware capability for 4 processors (and 8 processor in the future) to prove the validity of these well pubicized tests. MS is trying to leap-frog over their weak performance in single and dual processors, while setting up the conclusion that if NT Server is best in the 4 processor config it's best in all other configs. Secondly, I expect to see in the near future some MS PR about Windows 2000 beating NT 4 Server (in some special contrived situation) and therefor is the top performing OS server for Intel based systems. Right now, MS is in the 'discredit Linux' mode of their PR campaign, in an attempt to turn off the medias love affair with Linux... and they're succeeding because our 'big guns' are not responding!
I've done many benchmarks in the past 15 years and this one appears to be a setup as proposed. I would propose: 1) The benchmark not be conducted at Microsoft labs but at a more neutral benchmark site . 2). Both OS's should start from their latest 'shrink wrapped' version and then apply any patches that are available to the PUBLIC prior to the benchmark. 3). Linux and NT workstations should be included in the mix of Win'95/98 W.S's - most enterprises are not pure Win'95/98! - volume should cover the complete range to saturation/failure. Right now it appears that Linux up against a uniquely tuned NT 4.0 Server. The NT Server itself having been stripped of all unnecessary code modules, tailored to the particular hardware, and processing tailored to handle the proposed load.
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Could you send me the URL for the Panoramix download? I haven't been able to find it in Cooker.
I'm running this combination under RedHat 5.2 and it is stable and performing very well.It installed cleanly using the RealNetwork provided RPM. Gene
Its not the fact that Linux SMP scales to 16
namely VA Research, have to do some tuning and benchmarks to make it a reality.
I'm tired of seeing MS proxies wave their 4 processor benchmark resultss without a response from VA Research which
has the test hardware capability for 4 processors (and 8 processor in the future) to prove the validity of these well
pubicized tests.
MS is trying to leap-frog over their weak performance in single and dual processors, while setting up the conclusion that if
NT Server is best in the 4 processor config it's best in all other configs. Secondly, I expect to see in the near future some
MS PR about Windows 2000 beating NT 4 Server (in some special contrived situation) and therefor is the top performing
OS server for Intel based systems.
Right now, MS is in the 'discredit Linux' mode of their PR campaign, in an attempt to turn off the medias love affair with
Linux
I've done many benchmarks in the past 15 years and this one appears to be a setup as proposed. I would propose: 1) The benchmark not be conducted at Microsoft labs but at a more neutral benchmark site . 2). Both OS's should start from their latest 'shrink wrapped' version and then apply any patches that are available to the PUBLIC prior to the benchmark. 3). Linux and NT workstations should be included in the mix of Win'95/98 W.S's - most enterprises are not pure Win'95/98! - volume should cover the complete range to saturation/failure. Right now it appears that Linux up against a uniquely tuned NT 4.0 Server. The NT Server itself having been stripped of all unnecessary code modules, tailored to the particular hardware, and processing tailored to handle the proposed load.