On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:34:10PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 16:58, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > This is a offtopic question, but is related to Linux in that I need to do > > something in Windows I can easily do in Linux, and I wondered if someone > > could help me. > > > > I'm about to purchase a machine to install Debian on, but the people I'm > > getting it from only support Windows. I want to put the hardware under > > some load, but there doesn't seem to be any canonical way to do this in > > Windows. If they know Linux stuff I would just ask them to recompile the > > kernel a bunch of times. But this is probably not an option here. > > Why dont you do something like a webserver. Load test IIS on Windows > against apache on linux. Which ever one craps out first loses... or > something to that effect.
You can certainly use either as a fairly decent load generator as long as you have some client machines available, but I wouldn't try to use that particular test as a fair comparison of the operating systems. IIS and Apache have very different architectures; while Apache is flexible, and its one-process-per-connection model is easier to make reliable than the alternatives, it isn't really optimized for speed. (Not that I'd advocate using IIS, of course!) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
