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Il me semble que la propagande Micro$oft fonctionne bien.
Mais il ne s'accorde pas entre eux concernant l'environnement de test. 8-)
Enfin, cela met en valeur Linux puisque d'habitude Microsoft paye plutot des
comparaisons entre des Operating System commerciaux.


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From: nt-list-admin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
<nt-list-admin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>
To: Latest Win NT News <nt-list@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 6:04 PM
Subject: NTools ENewsFlash -- Report: NT 3.5x Faster Than Linux


>*****************************************************
>NTools E-NewsFlash: Report: NT 3.5x Faster Than Linux
>*****************************************************
>                    April 14, 1999
>
>Hi All,
>
>As most of you know, when some important news hits the
>wires we will inform you immediately. This morning I
>found something in my in-box that will definitely throw
>some more gasoline on the raging 'NT vs Linux' fire.
>
>I quickly read through the report and could not find
>anything wrong with it at first observation. The numbers
>seem to be correct, as they are using an industry standard
>benchmark that I have used myself as well, the ZD bench.
>
>Oh, before I forget, Novell actually wrote a rebuttal
>against that last report that SMS is better than ZEN.
>Interesting reading, and this gives the Novell POV:
>http://www.novell.com/products/nds/zenworks/ms2.html
>
>But here comes today's bomb in the NT vs Linux battle.
>One wonders who pays for these tests but I will ask the
>CEO of MindCraft and report on that in the next coming
>newsletter. Here goes!
>
>
>LOS GATOS, Calif., April 13. Today, Mindcraft released the results
>of a study comparing the performance of Red Hat Linux 5.2 (updated
>to the Linux 2.2.2 kernel) and Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
>operating systems. According to the report, Windows NT Server
>provides over three and a half times the performance of Linux as a
>Web server.  Furthermore, the report shows that when testing Windows
>NT Server and Linux as file servers, Windows NT Server provides over
>two and a half times the performance of Linux.  The full report,
>including all of the details needed to reproduce the tests, is on
>Mindcraft's Web site at:
>
>http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html.
>
>Using benchmarks from Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation (ZDBOp), the
>report compares the peak performance levels of both Windows NT
>Server and Linux configured both as a file server and a Web server.
>
>All tests were performed on a standard Dell PowerEdge 6300/400 server
>with four 400-MHz Xeon CPUs, 1GB RAM (960MB for Linux -- this is the
>default maximum amount of RAM that Linux supports).  To simulate a
>client load, Mindcraft used 144 physical client test systems; half
>were running Windows 95 and the other half were running Windows 98.
>
>Both Linux and Windows NT Server were tuned to perform optimally under
>each of the two workloads.  "We started the tests using standard Red Hat
>Linux 5.2 but had to update it because it does not support hardware RAID
>controllers and SMP at the same time," said Mindcraft's president, Bruce
>Weiner.  "Linux definitely takes more time and resources to tune and to
>configure than Windows NT Server.  You have to search the Net to find the
>latest kernel and driver versions to get the highest performance and most
>reliable modules. Then when you're done, Linux fails to deliver the same
>level of performance as Windows NT Server on enterprise-class servers."
>
>Mindcraft's report shows that using ZDBOp's WebBench 2.0 Web server
>benchmark, Windows NT Server and Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0
>reach a peak of 3,771 requests/second and 22.4 Megabits/second(Mbps) of
>throughput. The report goes on to show that Linux and the Apache 1.3.4
>Web server reach a peak of 1,000 request/second and 5.9 Mbps of
>throughput.  The WebBench 2.0 tests also revealed that there are problems
>with Linux/Apache at high client loads. "The Linux/Apache Web server
>performance collapsed with a WebBench load above 160 client test threads,
>while Windows NT Server/IIS continued to increase performance up through
>288 client test threads without reaching their peak performance," adds
>Mindcraft's Bruce Weiner.
>
>To simulate a file server workload, Mindcraft used ZDBOp's NetBench
>5.01 benchmark.  The testing revealed that Windows NT Server performance
>peaked at 286.7 Mbps with 112 clients, while Linux running Samba 2.0.1
>peaked at 114.6 Mbps with only 48 clients.  "The integration of the SMB
>file sharing protocol with the multi-processor kernel is a key performance
>win for Windows NT Server," said Weiner. "Customers benefit every day from
>the superior scalability of Windows NT Server, which delivers vital file
>and web services at two to three times the performance of Linux as shown
>in these benchmarks," said Edmund Muth, Group Product Manager, Microsoft
>Corporation. "Empirical data like this helps customers and planners make
>informed decisions, and showcases the industrial strength technology and
>mature engineering of the Windows NT Server operating system."
>
>About Mindcraft
>
>Mindcraft is a service-oriented, independent test lab. The company was
>founded in 1985 to provide high quality services and products to vendors
>and end users who want to test software, system, and network products.
>Mindcraft is committed to work to promote standards in our industry.
>Mindcraft is the only test lab to be a member of the Standard Performance
>Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).
>--------------------------------------
>
>That's all for this NewsFlash!
>
>Warm regards,
>
>Stu
>
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