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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Greg Barish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > > I agree with both Jean-Michel and Mark.
> > >
> > > As of right now, the NT/Intel combination is the best, at least if
> > > you believe the recent (yet controversial) Mindcraft/PC Week "open
> > > benchmarks", in which the NT/Intel combo siginficantly outperformed
> > > Linux, _even with_ the Red Hat guys tuning Linux for the benchmark.
> >
> > This is _very_ untrue. Indeed, some facts about the Mindcraft review have to
> > be made public, including:
Erm... this is all great, but is completely and totally irrelevant and
senseless to argue about here. The Mindcraft tests have zero bearing on
this issue. For anyone running a site that truly is high traffic, the
difference between needing one foobar machine or two farble machines is
quite minor compared with all the other considerations. You need more
than one machine anyway for reliability, so once you have an architecture
that can support that, adding a few more isn't a big deal.
The JVM is the problem, pure and simple. As these tests that everyone is
claiming show this or show that, _either_ of the tested platforms could
easily handle more than a couple of million hits a day when serving static
content. NT+IIS _should_ beat Apache on Linux for static content, and
that is just fine since it has very little real world impact.
The limiting factor in this case is almost entirely due to the Linux JVMs.
If there were more mature JVMs on Linux (which would come with a few
fixes to the Linux kernel and a few libraries), there wouldn't be a
problem.
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