Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Richard Harran
I clicked on the link a couple of minutes ago. It still hasn't come up! (ok, so it's probably the network in between, but I thought that was kinda ironic in the Alanis Morissette sense of the word) Sorry for the pointless posting: I'm supposed to be revising! Rich Peter S Galbraith wrote: My

Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Ian Peters
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 10:45:01AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: My IT manager just EMailed me this article (CC'ed to a bunch of Directors, of course): http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as a File

Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Adam Lazur
Peter S Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: My IT manager just EMailed me this article (CC'ed to a bunch of Directors, of course): http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as a File Server and 3.7 times faster

Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: My IT manager just EMailed me this article (CC'ed to a bunch of Directors, of course): http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as a File Server and 3.7 times

Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: My IT manager just EMailed me this article (CC'ed to a bunch of Directors, of course): http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux

Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Michael Stenner
note the following about 4/5 of the way through Mindcraft, Inc. conducted the performance tests described in this report between March 10 and March 13, 1999. Microsoft Corporation sponsored the testing reported herein. -Michael On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Peter

Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
There have been a lot of discussion on this benchmark on slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org). I had time to take a galnce and it seems that the benchmark is biased. It seems they have done a very good tunning of the NT box and a poor one for the linux box. As a small exemple they have used a

Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
I have just read the lwn comments. They have pointed out that the NT server was setted to use only 1GB of memory, so my last example of biased tunning doens't apply. Sorry for my error :-). Any way I would be glad to know which is the maximum amount of RAM kernel 2.2 can handle. Thank you all,

Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Gregory Wood
The March 22 issue of Smart Reseller (www.smartreseller.com) compared NT and Linux running Samba and it had Linux/Samba way ahead. So I was very surprized to see the test by Mindcraft. Try the following: www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/infopack/0,5483,387506,00.html There are two links on that page

Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Prof. Feedlebom
Spring 1999 Issue of linux magazine, page 42: LINUX OUTPERFORMED WINDOWS by as much as 250% for 12 or more client systems. (emphasis theirs, this is regarding SAMBA) If I may say so, both sides seem to be generating a lot of FUD on this. In my own (unscientific) studies, Linux has outperformed

Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread ptt
Itf your looking for articles look at slashdot.org's achrive. But if I'm correct(I'd head to double check ) I belive the fine print say Micosoft payed for it. Also the configuration I believed was such that they would either cripple Linux or not optimize it liek they fine tuned NT. I could be

Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Adam Lazur
Adam Lazur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: ---SNIP--- Linux Weekly News (www.lwn.com) is formulating a reply about the ^ doh, make that .net -- Adam Lazur - Computer Engineering Undergrad - Lehigh University icq# 3354423 - http://www.lehigh.edu/~ajl4

RE: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
I clicked on the link a couple of minutes ago. It still hasn't come up! (ok, so it's probably the network in between, but I thought that was kinda ironic in the Alanis Morissette sense of the word) Sorry for the pointless posting: I'm supposed to be revising! Rich Came up fast for me.

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-04-08 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 07 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 11:23:30 +0100, Jose Marin contaba: comment No mandes HTML a la lista, please, que queda feo. /comment El mutt soporta MIME y al ver el attachment me llamó al lynx automáticamente. Aunque no deja de ser una pesadez. Podrias explicar

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-04-07 Thread Manuel Batista Dominguez
Han Solo wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 03:58:17PM +0200, Ramiro Alba wrote: > > Tenemos Windows NT 4.0 instalado en una particin del primer disco y en > otra(s) > particiones del mismo disco instalamos Debian y onfiguramos Lilo para > que arranque de los 2 sistemas. El arranque de Linux ningn

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-04-07 Thread Jose Marin
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Manuel Batista Dominguez wrote: nbsp; Esa solucioacute;n es perfectamente vaacute;lida, pero creo que pierdes la funcionalidad del Bcargador LILO./B BRBnbsp;/B Copia el contenido de lo siguiente y ajustalo a tus necesidades, lo importante es que la particioacute;n de

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-04-07 Thread José Enrique Álvarez Martín
Hola que tal. Veo que el tema se animo. Lo primero que yo intente fue instalar primero NT y despues LINUX pero al poner LILO en el MBR, NT ya no puede arrancar ya que necesita su propio MBR, es decir el boot loader de NT, me temo que NT usa el boot loader para algo o es una nueva conia

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-04-07 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On mié, abr 07, 1999 at 11:23:30 +0100, Jose Marin wrote: Supongo que lo mejor seria poner LILO en el MBR (i.e., boot=/dev/hda), y Si tenerlo asi de master bootloader. Qué creeis? Pero, en ese caso, sabe alguien como guardar el MBR original (el bootloader de NT), por si interesa dejarlo como

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-03-30 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 03:58:17PM +0200, Ramiro Alba dijo: José Enrique Álvarez Martín wrote: [Problemas de Arranque Linux+WinNT] Ya vieron los HOWTO relevantes. -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa| POWERED BY | www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.0 |

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-03-30 Thread Han Solo
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 03:58:17PM +0200, Ramiro Alba wrote: Tenemos Windows NT 4.0 instalado en una partición del primer disco y en otra(s) particiones del mismo disco instalamos Debian y onfiguramos Lilo para que arranque de los 2 sistemas. El arranque de Linux ningún problema pero el de

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-03-29 Thread Ramiro Alba
José Enrique Álvarez Martín wrote: Hola a todos. Instale Windows NT 4.0 Server en mi pc, en una particion ntfs.Mas tarde instale LINUX en otro disco duro, al instalar LILO, me machaco el MBR de NT pero lo peor es que no puedo arrancar NT desde LILO. Por favor, alguien

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-03-29 Thread Antonio RODRIGUEZ GIL
Jos Enrique lvarez Martn wrote: Hola a todos. Instale Windows NT 4.0 Server en mi pc, en una particion ntfs. Mas tarde instale LINUX en otro disco duro, al instalar LILO, me machaco el MBR de NT pero lo peor es que no puedo arrancar NT desde LILO. Por favor, alguien me puede ayudar. Ver

RE: NT and Linux

1998-06-02 Thread King Lee
Thanks Bob McGowan for your very informative reply. I gather that 1. Software raid is OK if problem is I-O bound, i.e., CPU would normally be idle waiting for I-O. 2. If we have multiple subsystems, we increase the the I-O bandwidth, and now the CPU may not be keep

RE: NT and Linux

1998-06-02 Thread Bob McGowan
Hi, King, my comments follow your questions, below. I hope this helps. Bob King Lee asks: Thanks Bob McGowan for your very informative reply. I gather that 1. Software raid is OK if problem is I-O bound, i.e., CPU would normally be idle waiting for I-O. I would agree with this

Re: NT and Linux

1998-06-01 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Michele Comitini wrote: One great advantage is that you can combine any kind of partitions form different devices (even a combination of partitions from a mix of IDE or SCISI hard-disks!) and have different personalities (i.e. RAID-5 for filesystem partitions, RAID-0 for

RE: NT and Linux

1998-06-01 Thread Bob McGowan
-Original Message- From: King Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 1998 11:29 PM To: Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NT and Linux On Thu, 28 May 1998, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra

Re: NT and Linux

1998-05-29 Thread King Lee
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: King Lee wrote: 1. Has anyone here had any experience or knowledge about software raid. How good is it? 2. Does Linux support hardware raid 5 Just (re)found it!

Re: NT and Linux

1998-05-29 Thread Michele Comitini
Hello! I was surprised to learn that the 2.2 kernel supports software raid and that the software raid was as fast as hardware raid 5. Raid 5 does error correction and even if one of the disks die data can be recovered and the system continue. The article from www.osnews.com did say that

RE: NT and Linux

1998-05-28 Thread Robbie McGarrigle
-Original Message- From: King Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 8:29 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: NT and Linux Hello, I got into a discussion with a system administrator of a website. The system administrator wishes to use NT because it

Re: NT and Linux

1998-05-28 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
King Lee wrote: 1. Has anyone here had any experience or knowledge about software raid. How good is it? 2. Does Linux support hardware raid 5 Just (re)found it! http://www.osnews.com./features/04.98/raid.html Very good reading indeed! Enjoy and tell us what

Re: NT and Linux

1998-05-27 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
King Lee wrote: 1. Has anyone here had any experience or knowledge about software raid. How good is it? Know nothing about NT. If you look for information on Linux RAID (it's in the Internet, I've read it, can't remember where), it's said that Linux s/w RAID was in fact

RE: NT and Linux

1998-05-27 Thread Bob McGowan
-Original Message- From: King Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 12:29 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NT and Linux Hello, I got into a discussion with a system administrator of a

Re: NT vs. Linux: is zero-administration a reality? (was: Question.)

1997-12-31 Thread Mr. Whipple
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] NT make simple things simpler. In the process, by cramming everything into a neat little GUI it makes complex things difficult or impossible. Amen, brother! Truer words were never spoken. Well, maybe now and then, but not often. :) -- Edgar