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From: Sean Hunter <sean@dev.sportingbet.com>
To: Sasi Peter <sape@iq.rulez.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux scalability?
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:17:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010518091711.B26232@dev.sportingbet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e2ekt$3ua$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105180914560.29042-100000@iq.rulez.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105180914560.29042-100000@iq.rulez.org>; from sape@iq.rulez.org on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:24:48AM +0200

Why would you want to run a web server with 8 processors rather than four
webservers with 2 each?

Sean

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:24:48AM +0200, Sasi Peter wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am just writing an essay, an have mentioned TUX as a performance and
> scalability linearity recort holder with TUX, referencing the specweb99
> website summary page:
> 
> http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/web99.html
> 
> However, taking a closer look, it turns out, that the above statement
> holds true only for 1 and 2 processor machines. Scalability already
> suffers at 4 processors, and at 8 processors, TUX 2.0 (7500) gets beaten
> by IIS 5.0 (8001), and these were measured on the same kind of box!
> 
> How come, TUX is soooo good at the lowend (1 and 2 CPUs), and scales this
> bad?
> 
> -- 
> SaPE - Peter, Sasi - mailto:sape@sch.hu - http://sape.iq.rulez.org/
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-18  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-18 20:24 Linux OS boilerplate Scott Long
2001-02-18 20:32 ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-02-18 21:46 ` TeknoDragon
2001-02-19  1:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-19 10:07   ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-02-22  1:24     ` Tim Wright
2001-02-19  9:03 ` Paul Gortmaker
2001-02-20  4:29   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-18  6:14   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-18  7:24     ` Linux scalability? Sasi Peter
2001-05-18  8:12       ` reiser.angus
2001-05-18  8:30         ` Ronald Bultje
2001-05-18  8:30           ` reiser.angus
2001-05-18  9:05             ` Ronald Bultje
2001-05-18 19:28           ` [OT] " J Sloan
2001-05-18 19:38             ` David S. Miller
2001-05-18 19:46               ` Peter Rival
2001-05-18 19:57                 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-18 20:06                   ` Peter Rival
2001-05-18 20:13                     ` David S. Miller
2001-05-18 21:36                 ` J Sloan
2001-05-19  8:26         ` Sasi Peter
2001-05-18  8:17       ` Sean Hunter [this message]
2001-05-18 21:18         ` Rodger Donaldson
2001-05-19  8:31         ` Sasi Peter
2001-05-21 10:42           ` Sean Hunter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-18 18:07 Dan Kegel
2001-05-21 14:25 Dan Kegel

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