Comment 4 Network cards... (Score 4) 723
So they have 4 network cards in that nice little Dell machine, and they specifically mention "Used the affinity tool to bind one NIC to each CPU", so my question is whether they even bothered to use the other 3 NICs under Linux.
It seems to me that Linux with one network card doing only 2.5 times under NT with 4 network cards sounds about right. Give Linux 4 network cards and you get performace that easily blows NT away.
To use multiply NICs you have to use the network driver as a module I believe, did they bother to do that? I can't imagine Red Hat's installer "How many network cards do you have, but then again maybe it does, I'm a Slackware kinda person...
It seems to me that Linux with one network card doing only 2.5 times under NT with 4 network cards sounds about right. Give Linux 4 network cards and you get performace that easily blows NT away.
To use multiply NICs you have to use the network driver as a module I believe, did they bother to do that? I can't imagine Red Hat's installer "How many network cards do you have, but then again maybe it does, I'm a Slackware kinda person...
