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If you look at all the URLs that has been mentioned and read all the
postings, I think you'll get a pretty good idea on what should be done.
Just read about what was done wrong and do the opposite :-)

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 >A recent Microsoft sponsored test pitted NT server versus Linux on a quad
 >processor machine doing tasks like FTP and web services.  Although NT won on
 >this particular test, many were quick to point out that the NT installation
 >was optimised, while the Linux installation was not.  My question is, how do
 >you optimise Linux?  I know in NT you can defragment the hard drive and do
 >stuff like that, but how do you make Linux run to the best of it's ability?
 >

http://lwn.net/1999/features/MindCraft.phtml

If you ever need to run Linux in that kind of environment, there
are some helpful hints.  Most of us won't.

Bob T.

Heheheh.......Cute!!

Quote:>stuff like that, but how do you make Linux run to the best of it's ability?

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Hello,

Do you really want us to write a complete HOWTO? ;-)

There were some things they did completely wrong, and some (quite
important) things no information was given.

SAMBA was compiled with bad options and totally misconfigured, they
used a kernel known to have Problems withs WinXX clients, Apache was
totally misconfigured, Linux was not using the full memory available
because they were too stupid to get it run.

Think about the statement they give on their web site:

"With our custom performance testing service, we work with you to
define test goals. Then we put together the necessary tools and do the
testing. We report the results back to you in a form that satisfies
the test goals".

and remember the test was done for microsoft.

See http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/current#mindcraft

Quote:>  I know in NT you can defragment the hard drive and do
> stuff like that, but how do you make Linux run to the best of it's ability?

Defragmentation is never needed. You can fine tune lots of things, but
it depends on what the server should do.

Performance tuning is not easy, there are so many things you have to
keep in mind ...

CU
Olaf

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I thought it's been proven that Windows NT has any 2 out of the 4
processors busy waiting at any given time. So how can it beat Linux?

Hi,

I didn't follow the discussion, but someone asked how to tune linux,
well on slashdot is a link for tuning the samba-thingie:

http://slashdot.org/features/99/04/23/1316228.shtml

http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-04/lw-04-mindcraft.html

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