Truthfully , as far as I know Lin NOS falls short on clustering, though I
hear the latest version is scalable upto 16 microprocessors. I remember
about having read about B'rwolf
Clusters earlier on .....
Anything from you guys ?
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Date: Friday, July 21, 2000 11:56 PM
>Here's some info that appeared in Review from The Statesman,
>on 17-07-00----Soumya Sankar Ghosal says...
>
>System Archetecture : Linux performance & scalability is architecturally
>limited in the 2.2 kernel. Linux supports only 2GB of RAMon the x86
>architecture, compared to 4GB for NT. The Linux swap file is limited
>to128MB. The largest filesize that Linux supports is 2GB v/s
>16Terrabytes(TB)for NT. It also does not support many of the of the modern
>O/s features that NT has pioneered such as synchronous i/o,completion
>ports,and fine grained kernel locks. These archetectural constraints limit
>the ability of linux to scale well past 2 processors.
>
>Performance: The Linux community continues to to promise major SMP and
>performance improvements. They have been promising these since the
>development of the 2.0 Kernel in 1996. Delivering a scalable system is a
>complex task & it's not yet clear that the linux community can solve
>theseissues easily or quickly. As D.H Brown Associates noted in a recent
>technical report, the Linux 2.2 Kernel remains i the early stages of
>providing a tuned SMP kernel.
>
>What yo got to say bout that Kaushik ....??
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