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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Lastest piece of Mind games ......</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">NTools E-NewsFlash: Report: NT 3.5x Faster Than Linux</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> April 14, 1999</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi All,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">As most of you know, when some important news hits the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">wires we will inform you immediately. This morning I</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">found something in my in-box that will definitely throw</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">some more gasoline on the raging 'NT vs Linux' fire.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I quickly read through the report and could not find</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">anything wrong with it at first observation. The numbers</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">seem to be correct, as they are using an industry standard</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">benchmark that I have used myself as well, the ZD bench.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Oh, before I forget, Novell actually wrote a rebuttal </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">against that last report that SMS is better than ZEN.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Interesting reading, and this gives the Novell POV:</FONT>
<BR><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://www.novell.com/products/nds/zenworks/ms2.html" TARGET="_blank">http://www.novell.com/products/nds/zenworks/ms2.html</A></FONT></U>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">But here comes today's bomb in the NT vs Linux battle.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">One wonders who pays for these tests but I will ask the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">CEO of MindCraft and report on that in the next coming</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">newsletter. Here goes!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">LOS GATOS, Calif., April 13. Today, Mindcraft released the results </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">of a study comparing the performance of Red Hat Linux 5.2 (updated </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to the Linux 2.2.2 kernel) and Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">operating systems. According to the report, Windows NT Server </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">provides over three and a half times the performance of Linux as a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Web server. Furthermore, the report shows that when testing Windows </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">NT Server and Linux as file servers, Windows NT Server provides over </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">two and a half times the performance of Linux. The full report,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">including all of the details needed to reproduce the tests, is on</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mindcraft's Web site at:</FONT>
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<P><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html" TARGET="_blank">http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html</A></FONT></U><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Using benchmarks from Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation (ZDBOp), the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">report compares the peak performance levels of both Windows NT </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Server and Linux configured both as a file server and a Web server. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">All tests were performed on a standard Dell PowerEdge 6300/400 server </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">with four 400-MHz Xeon CPUs, 1GB RAM (960MB for Linux -- this is the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">default maximum amount of RAM that Linux supports). To simulate a </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">client load, Mindcraft used 144 physical client test systems; half </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">were running Windows 95 and the other half were running Windows 98. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Both Linux and Windows NT Server were tuned to perform optimally under</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">each of the two workloads. "We started the tests using standard Red Hat</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Linux 5.2 but had to update it because it does not support hardware RAID</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">controllers and SMP at the same time," said Mindcraft's president, Bruce</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Weiner. "Linux definitely takes more time and resources to tune and to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">configure than Windows NT Server. You have to search the Net to find the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">latest kernel and driver versions to get the highest performance and most</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">reliable modules. Then when you're done, Linux fails to deliver the same</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">level of performance as Windows NT Server on enterprise-class servers."</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mindcraft's report shows that using ZDBOp's WebBench 2.0 Web server</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">benchmark, Windows NT Server and Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">reach a peak of 3,771 requests/second and 22.4 Megabits/second(Mbps) of</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">throughput. The report goes on to show that Linux and the Apache 1.3.4 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Web server reach a peak of 1,000 request/second and 5.9 Mbps of</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">throughput. The WebBench 2.0 tests also revealed that there are problems</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">with Linux/Apache at high client loads. "The Linux/Apache Web server</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">performance collapsed with a WebBench load above 160 client test threads,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">while Windows NT Server/IIS continued to increase performance up through</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">288 client test threads without reaching their peak performance," adds </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mindcraft's Bruce Weiner.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To simulate a file server workload, Mindcraft used ZDBOp's NetBench </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">5.01 benchmark. The testing revealed that Windows NT Server performance</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">peaked at 286.7 Mbps with 112 clients, while Linux running Samba 2.0.1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">peaked at 114.6 Mbps with only 48 clients. "The integration of the SMB</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">file sharing protocol with the multi-processor kernel is a key performance</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">win for Windows NT Server," said Weiner. "Customers benefit every day from</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the superior scalability of Windows NT Server, which delivers vital file</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and web services at two to three times the performance of Linux as shown</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">in these benchmarks," said Edmund Muth, Group Product Manager, Microsoft</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Corporation. "Empirical data like this helps customers and planners make</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">informed decisions, and showcases the industrial strength technology and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mature engineering of the Windows NT Server operating system."</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">About Mindcraft</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mindcraft is a service-oriented, independent test lab. The company was</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">founded in 1985 to provide high quality services and products to vendors</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and end users who want to test software, system, and network products.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mindcraft is committed to work to promote standards in our industry.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mindcraft is the only test lab to be a member of the Standard Performance</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).</FONT>
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