On 1999-04-14 18:14, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > Of course, its not likely that anyone in the free software movement will > be able to verify the results, because they used pretty expensive > machinery. A four processor Xeon as the server, and 144 pentium test > nodes with ethernet switches.
Maybe the results are correct - Linux is still _relatively_ weak with respect to SMP, no? I mean, if Linux get's 40% juice out of a 4-way at this point (40% is a bogus number trying to illustrate that Linux doesn't scale linear with # of CPUs). How much _sense_ does it make to have a 4 way machine serve pages versus 4 single cpu (rack) machines plus a db box that can carry it? Do web servers typically need to share information that isn't stored in a datbase anyways? What does 4+1 headless machines cost versus a 4 way box? The cheastest box is $299 these days, I've heard. How many nodes does the big guys use (Lycos, Yahoo, Hotbot, CNN etc)? Just curious if anyone had some into to bring to the table... /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Phone: 781.938.5272 (home) 687 Main St., 2nd fl. Fax: 781.938.6641 (fax/modem) Woburn, MA 01801 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)
