Ingo Molnar and the many virtues of parsimonious design.

Ingo Molnar and the many virtues of parsimonious design.

Posted Aug 2, 2005 22:24 UTC (Tue) by brugolsky (subscriber, #28)
In reply to: Just a hobby, won't be big and professional ... by brugolsky
Parent article: On corporate PR and proper credit

Fair reader, if you'd like to wash that bad taste from your mouth, and re-live the thrill brought on by Ingo's shredding of the MindCraft benchmarks, I'd suggest (re-)reading Timothy Dyck's fine 2001 article on the TUX web server, TUX: Built for Speed.

This amusing sentence appears in a companion article that details the eWeek benchmarks ( Devils and Details of Benchmark Tests):

"The most unexpected testing issue that came up was our inability to saturate the Tux-based Web server on our standard test server configuration because it was so fast, a problem that forced us to remove two processors from the four-way Dell PowerEdge 6400 server (which was equipped with two Gigabit NICs and 2GB of RAM). This was the only way the testbed of 80 workstations could max out the Tux server (see benchmark chart)."

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