Linux thrashes Windows 2000 at SPECweb99

[Tony Finch <do...@dotat.at>]

They're using a new in-kernel httpd called "TUX".

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-07-05-001-04-OP

A description of TUX is here... sounds like it has proper layering :-)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/07/05/0211257&threshold=5&cid=218

The Windows configuration...
http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q2/web99-20000501-00028.html

The Linux configuration...
http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q2/web99-20000626-00054.html

Tony.
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Re: Linux thrashes Windows 2000 at SPECweb99

[dean gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>]

btw as of more recent results linux no longer thrashes win2k.  contrast:

http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q4/web99-20001127-00075.html
http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q4/web99-20001211-00082.html

all this really means is that if you write hand-tuned in-kernel code you
can, surprise surprise, get pretty much to the limit of the hardware.  we
saw the same thing a few years ago when IBM and Sun traded off quad Xeon
records on specweb96 (looks like microsoft eventually broke both those
records).

-dean

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Tony Finch wrote:

>
> They're using a new in-kernel httpd called "TUX".
>
> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-07-05-001-04-OP
>
> A description of TUX is here... sounds like it has proper layering :-)
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/07/05/0211257&threshold=5&cid=218
>
> The Windows configuration...
> http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q2/web99-20000501-00028.html
>
> The Linux configuration...
> http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q2/web99-20000626-00054.html
>
> Tony.
> --
> f.a.n.finch    fanf@covalent.net    dot@dotat.at
> 418 perdition's pogo stick
>