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Windows Server 2003 better than Linux (Inquirer)
Windows Server 2003 better than Linux (Inquirer)
Posted May 7, 2003 3:50 UTC (Wed) by andrewt (subscriber, #5703)Parent article: Windows Server 2003 better than Linux (Inquirer)
http://lse.sourceforge.net/benchmarks/netbench/results/february_2002/sched/
I ran some NetBench tests over a year ago on a 4 Pway III system, 22% slower clock rate (700 MHz), half the cache size (1MB) and 2/3 the memory (2.5GB). The best result achieved was 774 Mbps. This was on 2.4.17 with a development version of O1 scheduler and some other tweaks.
2.5 definitely has a lot of new scalability features that would help like TSO, Dcache RCU, etc, not to mention tweaks like enforcing case sensitivity in samba and using spinlocks for its database. Granted my run was with ext2, and ext3 was generally 9% slower, but considering the slower system this is well within striking distance of these results.
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