[LUAU] PC Week Labs' tests show what path Linux must take

Zachary Taylor ztaylor at aloha.net
Sat Jun 26 00:14:15 PDT 1999


 don't know the answers to your questions, but if we could do the ZD
experiments, but over an extended period of time, I think we might be on
to something.

On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Joe Schuller wrote:

> Zach,  Sounds like a great idea, except that to truly be a fair test you
> would have to let the NT and Linux servers run until it was necessary to
> reboot.  I wouldn't want to do that on a real lan, due to the contrary
> nature of NT.  I would much rather reboot my servers once a week when no
> one is there to know, to lessen the chance of unscheduled reboots.  It
> would also require a performance service running on both types of
> machines which would effect the overall performance of the LAN.  I would
> be hesitant to do this on a LAN I am using, and I don't think I can set
> up a LAN merely to run a test and come up with anything close to real
> world results,  but still it would be a much fairer comparison of the
> two systems.  How much of a lan would we have to have to do this?  Sorry
> about the questions, not trying to put an idea down just talk about what
> it would take to make the results a valid scientific type study.  I will
> go back to reading now.    Joe
> 
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