Yes, this I tested every single server on the page, I left none out. Some of the servers won't resolve, but it seems that there is a overwhelming appearance of NT that has been cracked lately. I do these tests almost everyday for a good laugh, and this is what I usually find. And for all of you that ask, yes queso can distinguish between SP3 and SP4/5, I needed to add that entry into my queso.conf.
It's never the lack of processor that produces lag, I should know, I run a quake2 server. My quake server never goes above 40% CPU usage on a PII 266, and that is a fully loaded 16 player match. It is always the bandwidth of the service provider. And in addition to that, I run X and compile stuff during matches. I never hear a complaint..... Or maybe it's just the NT servers that are really laggy....:)
I have personally benchmarked Linux and NT machines on our UCLA campus network. My friend has put his Linux P133, 40MB ram IDE hard drive print server up against our very own www.resnet.ucla.edu machine that is a dual P2 400 256MB ram, running NT and dual Seagate Barracudas in Raid 1 configuration. These two machines were on the same physical hub on this network for this test. The NT machine could beat the Linux box up to about 20 simultaneous http connections(only by about 20% though), after that the Linux box smoked the crap out of that NT machine. The NT machine really started to take a dump after about 30 clients, and would start dropping connections. And speaking about kicking the crap out of something..... don't even ask what happened when I put my P2 266 box up against www.resnet.ucla.edu. The results were one of the biggest jokes I had ever seen.
I don't believe this test data at all. I have personally seen NT boxes stop responding after Slashdot took them down. I can't even believe that the NT machine even accepted that many simultaneous connections. Our NT http server just decided to stop responding to any of them. Sorry about my crappy spelling, but I am really pissed off at this FUD.
And if anyone wants to do any http benchmarking of their very own, the machine I'm sitting at right now is fair game. My Linux box here P2 266 96MB ram, IDE drive
Try not to take this NT box down, I don't own it, I just linked to it:) The NT box www.resnet.ucla.edu here dual P2 400 256MB ram, SCSI RAID 1
You can definitely mount your fat32 drives r/w under kernel >2.0.34 and with 2.2.*. Make sure you mount as type vfat instead of msdos so you may keep your windows long filenames, or you may get some Progra~1 junk for filenames.
If you want to boot a linux system off a fat32 partition, I would recommend using UMSDOS, which is a simulated Linux filesystem that can live on fat partitions. It uses extra files and funny file names in the directory for UNIX file permissions, but it feels slower than a native ext2 filesystem so you may not want to use it for performance reasons. One of the few distributions that supports UMSDOS is Slackware with their Zipslack. I just tried it out a couple weeks ago on a machine at home, and it is ok, but it's nowhere near the speed of my native ext2 system at school.
Buying a UPS isn't as expensive as you think About 6 weeks ago, I bought a MGE Pulsar ES 2+. It will hold my system up for about 7 minutes, and has a serial cable and LINUX SOFTWARE (on the company's website) to shut it down when the UPS goes low. And the price... $50, not bad if you ask me. I was able to get it on sale at Fry's Electronics or it would have been about $100. Sounds like a good inexpensive solution to your problem. Give a UPS a try, you won't be dissapointed.
Finally, man you don't know how many applications I could break by trying to install the devel libs, even with the additional stable compatibility libraries. It was starting to make qt look good. Not any more.
Man, I think I'm going to start supporting SGI more. Hmm, maybe my pocketbook might be big enough for a new Visual Workstation, running Linux of course, hmm....
Ok, run the old x11amp (version.7) as normal, play some mp3's. Open a top and check it out. (hmm.7% for me) Now start rendering something in povray or start cracking rc5. Take a look at top again.... Interesting, my x11amp process is now taking up 8.2% mpg123 takes up less CPU for me. How about you?
Ok, run x11amp as normal, play some mp3's. Open a top and check it out. (hmm.7% for me) Now start rendering something in povray or start cracking rc5. Take a look at top again.... Interesting, my x11amp process is now taking up 8.2% mpg123 takes up less CPU for me. How about you?
Finally, a published article truly telling the world how much Linux kicks NT's butt. Too bad they didn't tell how many times NT crashed to the gound during the tests. I bet it was more than a few.
[drew@s196-237 drew]$ queso 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1:80 * Linux 2.0.35 to 2.0.9999:) [drew@s196-237 drew]$
Hmm, after watching my friend's computer with NT4 SP3 bluescreen twice, fail to run executables until it was rebooted three times, lock up the whole system five times, and all in the same day, I'm very happy I'm running Linux. So you can take your NT super kernel and shove it where the Sun Microsystems doesn't shine. I've seen too many blue screens in my lifetime, and I'm only 19. And at least have the guts to not be an "Anonymous Coward"
Slashdot Mirror
Cracked servers from HNN on 6/30/99
http://www.hackernews.com/
look at the bottom of the page for the cracked servers
[drew@drew drew]$ queso www.georgeabbot.surrey.sch.uk
error: unknown host www.georgeabbot.surrey.sch.uk
[drew@drew drew]$ queso chef.fab.albany.edu
169.226.46.59:80 * NT (SP4)
[drew@drew drew]$ queso altpro.pdp.albany.edu
169.226.73.101:80 * NT (SP4)
[drew@drew drew]$ queso caster.gsfc.nasa.gov
error: unknown host caster.gsfc.nasa.gov
[drew@drew drew]$ queso www.umkc-efkc.org
209.153.94.66:80 * NT (SP4)
[drew@drew drew]$ queso www.spc.noaa.gov
error: unknown host www.spc.noaa.gov
Yes, this I tested every single server on the page, I left none out.
Some of the servers won't resolve, but it seems that there is a overwhelming appearance of NT that has been cracked lately. I do these tests almost everyday for a good laugh, and this is what I usually find.
And for all of you that ask, yes queso can distinguish between SP3 and SP4/5, I needed to add that entry into my queso.conf.
It's never the lack of processor that produces lag, I should know, I run a quake2 server. My quake server never goes above 40% CPU usage on a PII 266, and that is a fully loaded 16 player match. It is always the bandwidth of the service provider. And in addition to that, I run X and compile stuff during matches. I never hear a complaint..... Or maybe it's just the NT servers that are really laggy.... :)
I have personally benchmarked Linux and NT machines on our UCLA campus network. My friend has put his Linux P133, 40MB ram IDE hard drive print server up against our very own www.resnet.ucla.edu machine that is a dual P2 400 256MB ram, running NT and dual Seagate Barracudas in Raid 1 configuration. These two machines were on the same physical hub on this network for this test. The NT machine could beat the Linux box up to about 20 simultaneous http connections(only by about 20% though), after that the Linux box smoked the crap out of that NT machine. The NT machine really started to take a dump after about 30 clients, and would start dropping connections. And speaking about kicking the crap out of something..... don't even ask what happened when I put my P2 266 box up against www.resnet.ucla.edu. The results were one of the biggest jokes I had ever seen.
:)
I don't believe this test data at all. I have personally seen NT boxes stop responding after Slashdot took them down. I can't even believe that the NT machine even accepted that many simultaneous connections. Our NT http server just decided to stop responding to any of them. Sorry about my crappy spelling, but I am really pissed off at this FUD.
And if anyone wants to do any http benchmarking of their very own, the machine I'm sitting at right now is fair game.
My Linux box here P2 266 96MB ram, IDE drive
Try not to take this NT box down, I don't own it, I just linked to it
The NT box www.resnet.ucla.edu here dual P2 400 256MB ram, SCSI RAID 1
You can definitely mount your fat32 drives r/w under kernel >2.0.34 and with 2.2.*. Make sure you mount as type vfat instead of msdos so you may keep your windows long filenames, or you may get some Progra~1 junk for filenames.
If you want to boot a linux system off a fat32 partition, I would recommend using UMSDOS, which is a simulated Linux filesystem that can live on fat partitions. It uses extra files and funny file names in the directory for UNIX file permissions, but it feels slower than a native ext2 filesystem so you may not want to use it for performance reasons. One of the few distributions that supports UMSDOS is Slackware with their Zipslack. I just tried it out a couple weeks ago on a machine at home, and it is ok, but it's nowhere near the speed of my native ext2 system at school.
Buying a UPS isn't as expensive as you think About 6 weeks ago, I bought a MGE Pulsar ES 2+. It will hold my system up for about 7 minutes, and has a serial cable and LINUX SOFTWARE (on the company's website) to shut it down when the UPS goes low. And the price... $50, not bad if you ask me. I was able to get it on sale at Fry's Electronics or it would have been about $100. Sounds like a good inexpensive solution to your problem. Give a UPS a try, you won't be dissapointed.
Check out MGE's site here
Finally, man you don't know how many applications I could break by trying to install the devel libs, even with the additional stable compatibility libraries. It was starting to make qt look good. Not any more.
:)
Less to worry about now
Man, I think I'm going to start supporting SGI more. Hmm, maybe my pocketbook might be big enough for a new Visual Workstation, running Linux of course, hmm....
Ok, run the old x11amp (version .7) as normal, play some mp3's. Open a top and check it out. (hmm .7% for me) Now start rendering something in povray or start cracking rc5. Take a look at top again.... Interesting, my x11amp process is now taking up 8.2%
mpg123 takes up less CPU for me. How about you?
CPU Hack? Probably...
Ok, run x11amp as normal, play some mp3's. Open a top and check it out. (hmm .7% for me) Now start rendering something in povray or start cracking rc5. Take a look at top again.... Interesting, my x11amp process is now taking up 8.2%
mpg123 takes up less CPU for me. How about you?
CPU Hack? Probably...
This article makes me happy :)
:)
Finally, a published article truly telling the world how much Linux kicks NT's butt. Too bad they didn't tell how many times NT crashed to the gound during the tests. I bet it was more than a few.
[drew@s196-237 drew]$ queso 127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1:80 * Linux 2.0.35 to 2.0.9999
[drew@s196-237 drew]$
Hmm, after watching my friend's computer with NT4 SP3 bluescreen twice, fail to run executables until it was rebooted three times, lock up the whole system five times, and all in the same day, I'm very happy I'm running Linux.
So you can take your NT super kernel and shove it where the Sun Microsystems doesn't shine.
I've seen too many blue screens in my lifetime, and I'm only 19.
And at least have the guts to not be an "Anonymous Coward"
Only got mt-glibc2, have fun
Jeez, I hope I'm not doing anything illigal by distributing this....
Oh well Download Here
Only got the Linux glibc2-mt, have fun.
Jeez, I hope I'm not doing anything illigal by distributing this myself.....
Oh well Download Here