Re: [OT] Stressing hardware under windows
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:34:10PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 16:58, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> > This is a offtopic question, but is related to Linux in that I need to do
> > something in Windows I can easily do in Linux, and I wondered if someone
> > could help me.
> >
> > I'm about to purchase a machine to install Debian on, but the people I'm
> > getting it from only support Windows. I want to put the hardware under
> > some load, but there doesn't seem to be any canonical way to do this in
> > Windows. If they know Linux stuff I would just ask them to recompile the
> > kernel a bunch of times. But this is probably not an option here.
>
> Why dont you do something like a webserver. Load test IIS on Windows
> against apache on linux. Which ever one craps out first loses... or
> something to that effect.
You can certainly use either as a fairly decent load generator as long
as you have some client machines available, but I wouldn't try to use
that particular test as a fair comparison of the operating systems. IIS
and Apache have very different architectures; while Apache is flexible,
and its one-process-per-connection model is easier to make reliable than
the alternatives, it isn't really optimized for speed.
(Not that I'd advocate using IIS, of course!)
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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