>
> Interesting.
>
> I tested an identical setup of Apache/modperl/Embperl/Oracle on NT and
> Linux, and I experienced a huge slowdown on NT. When I looked into it, I
> found that the more database-intensive the page, the slower the relative
> performance of the NT platform. I took that to mean that it was actually
> Oracle on NT that was the root of the problem, but wasn't sure. I
> guess now
> I know.
>
All mod_perl requests on NT are serialzied. So only one request can work at
a time, so when you inside the Orcale code, nothing else will happen. On
Unix, other tasks still contiunue, while the database query perl code is
executed.
Gerald
> -Ed
>
> >Doesn't seem to have hindered it in any way for me. Linus has
> > discussed raw
> > partitions several times - the upshot being that they tend to
> be no faster
> > than using e2fs because e2fs is very fast anyway, and you'd
> simply have to
> > implement a lot of the e2fs functions inside of your database anyway.
> >
> > Anyhow - I don't know about all the internal workings of these things -
> > just that it works and is damn quick for me.
> >
> > BTW: Someone benchmarked Oracle on Linux vs Oracle on NT (using
> TPC code)
> > and found the Linux version to be about 4-7 (depending on the
> test) times
> > faster. So I guess that's a finger in the eye to raw partitions (I think
> > the NT version can use raw partitions - correct me if I'm wrong).
> >
> > --
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> >
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