Re: [OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread J Sloan
Peter Rival wrote: > "David S. Miller" wrote: > > > J Sloan writes: > > > Microsoft finally managed to get a better result using > > > an all-out, "bet the farm", "benchmark buster" setup > > > with a special web cache in front of iis. > > > > I haven't heard anyone talk about the fact that th

Re: [OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Rival
"David S. Miller" wrote: > Peter Rival writes: > > Really? I just checked and it's still there from what I see. We're talking > > about the Dell 8450/700 w/ IIS & SWC 3.0 result, right? I'm hoping that > > they're deemed NC, but I don't see it yet... > > Sorry, they are there in the table,

Re: [OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread David S. Miller
Peter Rival writes: > Really? I just checked and it's still there from what I see. We're talking > about the Dell 8450/700 w/ IIS & SWC 3.0 result, right? I'm hoping that > they're deemed NC, but I don't see it yet... Sorry, they are there in the table, but marked as NC. Maybe you need to

Re: [OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Rival
"David S. Miller" wrote: > J Sloan writes: > > Microsoft finally managed to get a better result using > > an all-out, "bet the farm", "benchmark buster" setup > > with a special web cache in front of iis. > > I haven't heard anyone talk about the fact that their 8-cpu numbers > got disqualifie

Re: [OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread David S. Miller
J Sloan writes: > Microsoft finally managed to get a better result using > an all-out, "bet the farm", "benchmark buster" setup > with a special web cache in front of iis. I haven't heard anyone talk about the fact that their 8-cpu numbers got disqualified and aren't even mentioned on the SPE

[OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread J Sloan
Ronald Bultje wrote: > On 18 May 2001 10:12:34 +0200, reiser.angus wrote: > > > However, taking a closer look, it turns out, that the above statement > > > holds true only for 1 and 2 processor machines. Scalability already > > > suffers at 4 processors, and at 8 processors, TUX 2.0 (7500) gets b