Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:35:52 -0700 (PDT) | From | Zack Brown <> | Subject | Re: maximum/optimal # of SMP CPUs between 2.2 and 2.4 |
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Hi,
Since the conversation has drifted away from SMP (the original question), folks can stop Ccing me.
Thanks, Zack
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:13:33 -0700 > From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> > > Aren't these quoted results from *static* web page tests? > > Specweb99 is part static part dynamic content. > > And didn't Linux use khttp? If so, then unless NT is also using a > kernel resident server, comparing these is perhaps useful for > marketing but is not useful for engineering (and this is absolutely > an engineering forum). > > NT's IIS server runs certain portions of itself in privileged x86 mode > to push buffers into/outof the NT kernel subsystems directly. > > I'd be far more interested in seeing NT and Linux compared on something > which uses http to get a 20 little CGI scripts which do nothing but say > "I am script #18", and are implemented on both platforms as stand alone > perl programs. > > Guess what kind of things specweb99 does, very similar to what you > mention here :-) > > I think Linux is likely to smoke NT on that, but I'd like to know that. > Any takers? > > I think it's already been taken :-) > > Later, > David S. Miller > davem@redhat.com >
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