Comment hmmm... Now where have I seen this test before? (Score 3) 177
Test server:
4 Pentium II/III CPUs
4 Intel NICs
RAID l5
2G RAM
Apache/Samba/no kernel tweaks
Why is it that all companies insist on picking hardware on which Linux performs the poorest? It seems our friends at ZD have been chatting with our friends at Mindcraft methinks (or perhaps M$ themselves).
Despite the fact that we seem to compare more favorably in this study than we did in the Mindcraft study, there is an extrememly important lesson we need to take away from this "losing in the benchmarks" experience as of late: we need to take these deficiencies and turn them into future strengths.
It was put very well by Linus himself in a previous poster's message. To paraphrase, anything that can be interpreted as a weakness in Linux by a media or testing agency must be improved. These are worthy pusuits, and if we keep doing them at the rate they are discovered, (unlike our M$ friends), we will eventually surpass all other OSes in every respect that matters.
We should probably place a particular emphasis on improving our SMP code, because that's the area we probably have the most to gain. All those other driver optimizations will only help us if by some luck the testing agency picks the same ones.
Anyways, I hope everyone won't get discouraged over this recent benchmarking FUD. The acceptance of good things is not always an easy road.
4 Pentium II/III CPUs
4 Intel NICs
RAID l5
2G RAM
Apache/Samba/no kernel tweaks
Why is it that all companies insist on picking hardware on which Linux performs the poorest? It seems our friends at ZD have been chatting with our friends at Mindcraft methinks (or perhaps M$ themselves).
Despite the fact that we seem to compare more favorably in this study than we did in the Mindcraft study, there is an extrememly important lesson we need to take away from this "losing in the benchmarks" experience as of late: we need to take these deficiencies and turn them into future strengths.
It was put very well by Linus himself in a previous poster's message. To paraphrase, anything that can be interpreted as a weakness in Linux by a media or testing agency must be improved. These are worthy pusuits, and if we keep doing them at the rate they are discovered, (unlike our M$ friends), we will eventually surpass all other OSes in every respect that matters.
We should probably place a particular emphasis on improving our SMP code, because that's the area we probably have the most to gain. All those other driver optimizations will only help us if by some luck the testing agency picks the same ones.
Anyways, I hope everyone won't get discouraged over this recent benchmarking FUD. The acceptance of good things is not always an easy road.
