From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 04:19:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 04:19:13 -0400 Received: from sportingbet.gw.dircon.net ([195.157.147.30]:27657 "HELO sysadmin.sportingbet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 04:18:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:17:11 +0100 From: Sean Hunter To: Sasi Peter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux scalability? Message-ID: <20010518091711.B26232@dev.sportingbet.com> Mail-Followup-To: Sean Hunter , Sasi Peter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <9e2ekt$3ua$1@cesium.transmeta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from sape@iq.rulez.org on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:24:48AM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >