Another interpretation of the Mindcraft and c't measurement results is that for
static, in-cache page-serving, that the
limiting factor is the bandwidth of the network interface. If the network
interface is the bottleneck, then adding processors
is not a very interesting test of scalability. Also, it might be the case
that in order for the 4-way NT system to be bottlenecked on
something other than the network card (once again for static, in-cache
page-serving), you have to have 4 network interfaces.
If this is true, then the reason that Linux doesn't do as well in the MP cases
merely reflects that Linux MP doesn't scale well.
I've heard (but haven't personally checked) that Linux networking code in 2.2.x
is single-threaded. If this is correct, then
that just exacerbates the scaling problem.
Best Regards,
Ray Bryant
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Best Regards,
Ray Bryant
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