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From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
To: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Microsoft claim 267% better peak performance than linux?
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:24:25 +0000
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On Tuesday 28 September 2004 07:55, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> I was pointed to this (rotating) banner advert at the top of www.eweek.com
>
> It claims that when comparing Red Hat AS2.1 with Windows Server 2003 on a
> dual processor machine, Windows Server 2003 gives 276% better peak
> performance, quoting Veritest as the source.

It is very easy to 'slightly' misconfigure Linux machine so that it
slows to a crawl. For webservers, classic way to do it is to force
Apache to log a fqdn of incoming connections instead of numeric IP.

>From pdf:
> Microsoft commissioned VeriTest, a division of Lionbridge
> Technologies, Inc., to conduct a series of tests comparing
> the Web serving performance of the following server operating
> system configurations running on a variety of server hardware
> and processor configurations...

Do you seriously expect that MS-funded tests can ever find Linux
to be faster?
-- 
vda
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