)On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jonathan Eunice wrote:
> Btw, in discussing scalability, you might want to keep in mind that
> the world's fastest TPC-C benchmark (that is, DBMS and OLTP
> performance) is a Windows 2000 cluster. At just over 440K tpmC, it
> beats the fastest Unix competitor (at ~136K tpmC, the IBM S80, a 24x
> box) by over 3:1. If you forego absolute performance in favor of
> price/performance, all ten of the top ten resuls run Windows. Linux
> has never run this race.
>
> I know it's fun to bash Microsoft, but Windows' benchmark
> results--audited, no less--are quite resonable. If you're interested
> in a technical rather than marketing discussion, it's something you
> may want to keep in mind.
>
Yea, they're the top (until challenged, check the withdrawn list),
but, as you say, Linux has never played in this, nor has MySQL or
PostGreSQL. Another issue that I have with the TPC benchmarks is that
they don't measure uptime or stability. Note in the definition of TPC
that, although the test configuration is specified as being able to
run for 8 hours, the minimum requirement is 20 minutes, as long as the
configuration is such that the results over 8 hours would be the same
(+-2%). If the machine crashes every 12 hours, you still meet the
requirements.
jeff
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