Re: OFFTOPIC: Regarding NT vs Linux
Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Sat, 20 Sep 1997 17:45:17 +0200 (MET DST)
Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Sachin Garg wrote:
>
> > What I would like to know is how much of this hype surrounding NT is true?
> > Guys talk about NT supporting SMP on upto 4 processors and enterprise
> > version upto 8 processors. What is Linux's limit of SMP, if any? NT runs
> Win/NT SMP sucks. C't (a german magazine tested SMP boxes) found, that it
> doesn't scale very much, because it seems that interrupts are done only on
> one processor. Linux 2.0/SMP sucks probably even more :(, as it has a
> global spin lock :(((((
The thing is, that NT has been like this for a few years now, and
Linux will eliminate the global spin lock before the end of the year.....
Roger.
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