Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:52:15 +0200 | From | Marc Mutz <> | Subject | Re: Dual Ethernet Slowness Causing Lousy Benchmarks? (was: A very informative benchmark.) |
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Jordan Mendelson wrote: > > > Now if this was a static test, then the only difference between the first test > and the last test was the number of ethernet controllers used... and look at > the performance difference: > > Linux 4KB static pages, 1 CPU, 1 Eth: 960 requests/second > Linux 4KB static pages, 1 CPU, 2 Eth: 1100 requests/second > > NT 4KB static pages, 1 CPU, 1 Eth: 950 requests/second > NT 4KB static pages, 1 CPU, 2 Eth: 2000 requests/second > yepp. In fact it was only a single page. They wanted to check if the servers were capable of saturating (?correct english?) a 100Mbit line, then later, if this was still true for 2 100Mbit lines. Obviously NT has no problems 'saturating' up to four (see Mindcraft; or even more?) NICs, when the service requested is trivial. But then Linux can't and, as other people in other threads pointed out, that should be looked at. Besides giving M$ a sure win in benchmarks, current and forthcoming ones, it does not fit the target of improving scalability (when not restricted to SMP, but including multiple-I/O).
Marc
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