----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 10:31
AM
Subject: Is NT faster?
I just installed CF for linux on one of my boxes
and ran a couple tests to compare the Operating systems. I used the same
machine with NT, CF and IIS on one
install and Linux, Apache and CF. I also had SQL 7 running on a separate
box... I didn't think to do more tests, but I did 3 tests on both boxes.
I ran the tests by getting the execution time around a few lines of code and
running that 40 times and averaging the results. Here were my initial
conclusions:
Test 1: use cffile to select a 1 meg file
and output it to the screen
On NT: 78.8 milliseconds
On Linux: 145.2
milliseconds
Test 2: run a big query and group the
output:
On NT: 1771.5 milliseconds
On Linux: 3304.5 milliseconds
Test 3: run a big query using data caching
and group the output:
On NT: 407.6 milliseconds
On Linux: 1421.8
milliseconds
All three tests show that NT is
considerably faster, although I haven't performance tuned this Linux box very
well, mainly because I don't know how. I'm sure these times could be
shaved down a little.
Now I'm thinking about doing more tests to get a
better understanding of the differences. I'm also very curious to know
about these types of tests with different type of hardware. Is anyone
interested in this type of information?
Steve
