Re: OFFTOPIC: Regarding NT vs Linux

Rick Ellis (ellis@ftel.net)
21 Sep 1997 09:11:28 GMT

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In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.970920163727.12141A-100000@lifesaver>,
Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@ag.or.at> wrote:

>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 :(((((

InternetWeek did an article on different OS's acting as web servers a
couple of weeks ago. NT actually got slower with a second CPU.

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