Hi,
Since the conversation has drifted away from SMP (the original question),
folks can stop Ccing me.
Thanks,
Zack
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:13:33 -0700
> From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
>
> Aren't these quoted results from *static* web page tests?
>
> Specweb99 is part static part dynamic content.
>
> And didn't Linux use khttp? If so, then unless NT is also using a
> kernel resident server, comparing these is perhaps useful for
> marketing but is not useful for engineering (and this is absolutely
> an engineering forum).
>
> NT's IIS server runs certain portions of itself in privileged x86 mode
> to push buffers into/outof the NT kernel subsystems directly.
>
> I'd be far more interested in seeing NT and Linux compared on something
> which uses http to get a 20 little CGI scripts which do nothing but say
> "I am script #18", and are implemented on both platforms as stand alone
> perl programs.
>
> Guess what kind of things specweb99 does, very similar to what you
> mention here :-)
>
> I think Linux is likely to smoke NT on that, but I'd like to know that.
> Any takers?
>
> I think it's already been taken :-)
>
> Later,
> David S. Miller
> davem@redhat.com
>
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