Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-22T23:13:43Z

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:15:52PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Show me one OS which scales to 32 CPUs on an I/O load and run lmbench
> on a single CPU. Then take that same CPU and stuff it into a uniprocessor
> motherboard and run the same benchmarks on under Linux. The Linux one
> will blow away the multi threaded one. Come on, prove me wrong, show
> me the data.

I could ask the SGI Eagan folks to do that with an Altix and a IA64
Whitebox - oh wait, both OSes would be Linux..