Re: [OT] Microsoft claim 267% better peak performance than linux?

From: Norbert van Nobelen
Date: Tue Sep 28 2004 - 03:12:17 EST


Just the fact that the benchmark is this old, is a good reason to doubt
it.

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 09:55, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> I was pointed to this (rotating) banner advert at the top of www.eweek.com
>
> It claims that when comparing Red Hat AS2.1 with Windows Server 2003 on a dual processor machine, Windows Server 2003 gives 276% better peak performance, quoting Veritest as the source.
>
> I think the report in question must be this one
>
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/7/1/0715a190-70f5-4b0d-8ced-f9d1e046aa6a/netbench.pdf
>
> Its dated April 2003, so this was probably discussed a long time ago, but can anyone point me in the direction of an analysis/rebuttal of this report from the linux community? "Windows webserver gives 3x performance of linux" is something I need to be able to debunk, assuming it's inaccurate.
>
> Andrew
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