Subject: Re: Is the netBSD kernel Preemptible ?
To: Gary Thorpe <gat7634@hotmail.com>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: tech-perform
Date: 06/14/2002 19:32:19
Gary Thorpe said:

>In a very hyped "showdown" between Linux and Windows NT on web serving 
>performance, Windows NT gained a great throughput advantage in the SMP 
>configuration because Linux was unable to allow multiple threads to use the 
>multiple network adapters in the machine very efficiently (unfortunately I 
>have no links/references).

The scenario was a 4 processor box with a quad card. What Microsoft did was
introduce a registry tuneable that would allow a processor to have complete
use of a particular ethernet port.

The scenario was 4 100mb connections on the same subnet. Completely bogus.

Threads had nothing to do with it. And it was all static web pages.
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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com