Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD
On 1999-04-14 18:14, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
> Of course, its not likely that anyone in the free software movement will
> be able to verify the results, because they used pretty expensive
> machinery. A four processor Xeon as the server, and 144 pentium test
> nodes with ethernet switches.
Maybe the results are correct - Linux is still _relatively_ weak with
respect to SMP, no? I mean, if Linux get's 40% juice out of a 4-way
at this point (40% is a bogus number trying to illustrate that Linux
doesn't scale linear with # of CPUs).
How much _sense_ does it make to have a 4 way machine serve pages
versus 4 single cpu (rack) machines plus a db box that can carry it?
Do web servers typically need to share information that isn't stored
in a datbase anyways? What does 4+1 headless machines cost versus a 4
way box? The cheastest box is $299 these days, I've heard. How many
nodes does the big guys use (Lycos, Yahoo, Hotbot, CNN etc)?
Just curious if anyone had some into to bring to the table...
/Allan
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