Sabi ni Ian noong Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:24:53 +0800
> Gee, well ok. I'll get this when linux/390 is mainstream already. In the
Nah, wait as well till the hardware prices go down. Still in the millions of
pesos at the moment.
> meantime, i'm content with having a 5 server farm consisting of 8-way SMP
Sounds like a setup in the millions of pesos as well <g>
> penguincomputing boxes. Granted, linux doesn't scale well beyond 4, i still
> want them 8! \8)
Too bad I came late to the Penguin Computing presentation at last year's Linux
conf. The Penguin reps claimed that their boxes scaled well, and I wanted to ask
what changes, if any, they made to the kernel to accomplish that. And further to
the point of scaling, have there been any studies of performance increment per
additional processor compared to NT? I remember seeing a paper several years
back (NT 3.5 pa yata) which said that NT's dual-processor performance was 170%
better than a single-processor, and a quad-processor offered a performance
increase of 165% over a dual. Any processor-increment studies on Linux?
Mabuhay.
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