Hm. I may have erred a bit.
1) ON SPECweb99, an 8-way Xeon-700 running Win2K puts out 8001 SPECweb99. A comparable TUX 2.0 server (running a 2.2 kernel by the way) "only" puts out 7500. I would suppose 2.4 would be better due to the better stack (the machines had 8x gigabit ethernet ports) But.. a 4-way box running Win2K puts out only 1700+ while TUX 2.0 puts out 4200+ I believe. So on smaller boxes Linux is much much better. How much is an 8-way box again? then add the cost of Win2K Datacenter Edition Limited Edition to that... hmmm... 2) the TPC benchmark I was quoting is TPC-H, not TPC-C. There are no submissions for TPC-C on Linux at all. And on TPC-H, there's just one entry, in the 100GB category, by SGI. All the other 100GB entrants are running SQL2000. However there is only 1 SQL2000 entry in the 300GB, and none in the higher ones, which are still dominated by Big UNIX. Anyway.. I thoroughly resent "CrashIntoMe"'s insinuations. I'm not blind to Win2K benefits (heck I use it) but blanket statements like "Linux eats WinNT's dust and entrails" without a shred of proof or at least attribution means NOTHING, NOTHING, NADA. The best it shows is that you have severely limited knowledge in tuning Linux. If you have a box similar to this one: 933MHz PIII 512MB RAM single IDE drive, 7200 rpm and a benchmark which can be replicated on both Windoze and Linux (loading a huge dataset into Oracle9i then running a bunch of queries on it comes to mind) then I would gladly give you your shot to prove your assertions. =) Sorry if the hardware choice is limited, that's just my personal machine and I have no business playing benchmark games with PC's I don't own. -- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
