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Albert D. Cahalan enscribed thusly:

> There is a _new_ "Open Benchmark Invitation" on Mindcraft's site.
> http://www.mindcraft.com/openbenchmark.html

> This one is hard to refuse. PC Week has offered to supply the lab
> and settle disputes over the rules. We got NT clients added, along
> with an unlimited-patch test run and some random minor junk.

> (we can kill atime, mke2fs with fancy options or use reiserfs, add the
> Beowulf hack for multiple Ethernet cards, hack the scheduler, etc.)

> Linux might really lose. This is like benchmarking knfsd against the
> user-space NFS, with NT getting the kernel-mode advantage. Ouch.
> NT will be keeping all files open during the entire http test,
> binding processes and cards to processors, etc.

> At least we get to spend a day tuning, so somebody will get a chance
> to profile the kernel on very expensive hardware. If Linux does lose,
> somebody might even get bothered enough to write ksmbd and khttpd.

I want Tridge (Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>) or Jeremey
(Jeremy Allison <jallison@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>) of the Samba team in
the loop on this. Jeremey, in particular, has been involved in benchmarks
that have wiped the floor with NT.

> To refuse is to admit failure, not even giving Linux a chance.

Mike
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