I found this study interesting, and I think it points out one important area where linux HAS to improve abd that is file i/o.
My main concern is that NFS prestanda still is really really bad, but this study shows that even file reasing also is significantly slower than for solaris. This might be due to the RAID system but it is an important area.
I still concider linux to lack in some area compared to the best nixes around, however ofcourse it still is much better in some areas. (Mainly important for low end machines)
I have an alpha running linux it is rather old a 21164 running at 500 Mhz but it sure runs some applications much faster than any intel machine.
I payed $7000 for this machine but today it is less than $3000 (with descent amount of memory and disk). The problem is that a 21264 is still about $7000
Pros: Floating point performance is great (most people do not care but for my MD simulations I NEED it)
Cons: Xfree86 is unstable.
What compaq should do is to release their compilers for linux, and preferably release a $5000 21264 machine then I would by 16 of this and stop using the SP2
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I found this study interesting, and I think it
points out one important area where linux HAS to
improve abd that is file i/o.
My main concern is that NFS prestanda still is really really bad, but this study shows that even file reasing also is significantly slower than for solaris. This might be due to the RAID system but it is an important area.
I still concider linux to lack in some area compared to the best nixes around, however ofcourse it still is much better in some areas. (Mainly important for low end machines)
I have an alpha running linux it is rather old a 21164 running at 500 Mhz but it sure runs some applications much faster than any intel machine.
I payed $7000 for this machine but today it is less than $3000 (with descent amount of memory and disk). The problem is that a 21264 is still about $7000
Pros: Floating point performance is great (most people do not care but for my MD simulations I NEED it)
Cons: Xfree86 is unstable.
What compaq should do is to release their compilers for linux, and preferably release a $5000 21264 machine then I would by 16 of this and stop using the SP2