Re: [FW1] NT or Unix

[Hans-Joachim Hoetger <hans-joachim.hoetger@FW1-NOSPAMmediaways.net>]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 03:31:52PM -0500, Dan Guinn wrote:

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SunOS  5.6 Generic_105181-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
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 11:21am  up 508 day(s), 38 min(s),  5 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.05, 0.05
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> 
> I had it running for a site with 250+ nodes on a Compaq ML330 server (733
> CPU, 256MB RAM) on RH6.2.
> 
> Not a call on that box in 3 months.
> 
> Dan Guinn
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Quinonez [mailto:jquinonez@rightworks.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 4:40 PM
> To: 'mdecker@rainfinity.com'; 'Jack Klein';
> fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
> Subject: RE: [FW1] NT or Unix
> 
> 
> 
> Suh weet. What type of hardware are you speaking of on the Linux side? Also
> what flav of Linux? We have a Redhat box, um 6.2 (for shites and giggles)
> running on an lowend HP E60 and it hauls. I always bring up Linux solutions
> to my IT Director, but he like others, fear the penguins.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Decker [mailto:mdecker@rainfinity.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 12:30 PM
> To: 'Jack Klein'; fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
> Subject: RE: [FW1] NT or Unix
> 
> 
> 
> I can vouch for Dan on this point.  I've seen several different
> benchmark results that give Unix a 20-40% advantage over NT on max
> throughput, depending on the Unix flavor.  Solaris performance is hard
> to compare fairly because the HW platforms used to test are always
> different, but you can do a nice apples-to-apples with Linux.  Of the
> three (NT/Solaris/Linux), Linux seems to be the best performer,
> especially in terms of overall cost per Mbit of throughput.  However,
> you'll probably find better commercial support for Solaris and NT than
> Linux at this point.
> 
> If you're not going to be maxing out the box, I say just "go with what
> you know".
> 
> Mark L. Decker
> Rainfinity
> mdecker@rainfinity.com
> www.rainfinity.com
>> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Guinn
> > To: 'Jack Klein'; 'fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com'
> > Subject: RE: [FW1] NT or Unix
> >
> >  Both seem to work about the same (unless you put them under a lot
> > of load, in which case Linux seems to be faster for throughput).
> 
> 
> 
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