[NTLUG:Discuss] [Fwd: Linux vs Solaris stats]

[MadHat]

Alton Pouncey wrote:
> 
> Not to sound like a Sun apologist or anything but why wasn't a benchmark done on an
> UltraSparc machine as well?  Solaris isn't exactly optimized (no matter how many
> times you recompile the kernel) for the Intel architecture.  I would have liked to
> see how UltraLinux would have fared against Solaris on the sun4u architecture.

I would have also like to have seen both on  Sparcs, but I aam sure this
will be done at some point in time.  I wish I had time.

> 
> To me, it is obvious that Linux will beat most any OS (maybe all??) on a PC.

It isn't always the fact that it beats it, but by how much it beats it. 

> 
> Alton Pouncey
> 
> "J. Reeves Hall" wrote:
> 
> > Georgia Tech did some tests on Linux and Solaris... Take a look at the
> > numbers. They're either amazing, or pathetic, depending on which
> > OS you're supporting :)
> >
> > -Reeves
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Subject: Re: Linux vs Solaris stats
> > Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 11:01:46 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: vernard at cc.gatech.edu (Vernard Martin)
> > To: reeves at earthling.net (J. Reeves Hall)
> >
> > > I took a look at
> > > http://www.cc.gatech.edu/projects/ihpcl/lmbench-results/lmbench.html...
> > > It would appear that Linux ate Solaris for lunch. Is Linux really that
> > > much more efficient than Solaris, or am I looking at the numbers
> > > crosseyed?
> >
> > Sorry it took so long to respond. I had a death in the family.o
> > Yes, those comparisons are correct. Except in exactly one case, linux beats the
> > absolute stuffing out of solaris hands down. Now this was Solaris 2.5. Solaris
> > 2.7 is out and I don't believe that we have run the benchmarks on it yet.
> >
> > > Any idea how NT stacks up?
> >
> > Afraid not. We don't have the POSIX package for NT so lmbench won't run on it.
> > My gut instinct is that it'll hold its own for most of the tests, win a few
> > handily and loose a few very badly.
> >
> > Vernard
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable   Vernard Martin (vernard at cc.gatech.edu)
> > Lightness has a call that's hard to hear  http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vernard/
> 
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MadHat