Interesting.
I tested an identical setup of Apache/modperl/Embperl/Oracle on NT and
Linux, and I experienced a huge slowdown on NT. When I looked into it, I
found that the more database-intensive the page, the slower the relative
performance of the NT platform. I took that to mean that it was actually
Oracle on NT that was the root of the problem, but wasn't sure. I guess now
I know.
-Ed
>Doesn't seem to have hindered it in any way for me. Linus has
> discussed raw
> partitions several times - the upshot being that they tend to be no faster
> than using e2fs because e2fs is very fast anyway, and you'd simply have to
> implement a lot of the e2fs functions inside of your database anyway.
>
> Anyhow - I don't know about all the internal workings of these things -
> just that it works and is damn quick for me.
>
> BTW: Someone benchmarked Oracle on Linux vs Oracle on NT (using TPC code)
> and found the Linux version to be about 4-7 (depending on the test) times
> faster. So I guess that's a finger in the eye to raw partitions (I think
> the NT version can use raw partitions - correct me if I'm wrong).
>
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