Hello, fellow cookers.
Sometimes some benchmarks do the heart good.
I was on-site at a client's in NY City yesterday. I support their
accounting system, which for years they've run off a server running
Novel 3.1. Their in-house technical guy (who is 100% microsoft) and
their "consultant" just put in a HP server running Windows 2000 Server.
We moved their accounting files over, and the thing just could NOT
handle it. Before leaving, I ran some benchmarks.
We're running a b-tree database, doing nothing but simple Windows
networking I/O. The NT server is a 1.7GHz with 3 60GB hard drives and a
raid controller. The Novell server is a Pentium II at 266, and my
laptop is a Pentium II at 366. The test was inserting records into
the database file.
Single User - no network, building database on laptop - 1074
records / 30 seconds
NT server running test program on NT server - no network - 230
records / 30 seconds
All other tests were a 750mHz PIII running Windows 98SE to various servers.
Single User - writing to Novel server - 653 records / 30 seconds
Single User - writing to NT server - 208 records / 30 seconds
Single User - my laptop running SAMBA on Mandrake 9.0 beta 3 - 950
records / 30 seconds.
Needless to say, they were NOT happy that the server that they just
paid $15,000 for runs slower than a 3 year old laptop P-II running
Mandrake!
Next Wednesday the new NT server is going back where it came from,
and I'm installing two servers running Mandrake :-) Will cost them
less than half the price, and be one heck of a lot faster.
Thanks, everybody, for a fantastic system.
Vinny
