Re: [Lse-tech] Take that! Linux beats MS in benchmark test

[Mike K. <mkr...@us...>]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:16:34AM -0700, Ruth Forester wrote:
> Linux breaks the TPC barrier...
> 
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2760874,00.html
> 

It is interesting (from a scalability standpoint) that this
benchmark was run on a cluster of 4 CPU systems.  Did anyone
try to run it on a single 8 CPU system?  This would make an
interesting comparison as most of the other results are on
8 CPU systems running Windows/SQL.

I have had problems running Linux/DB2 on 8 CPU systems due
to contention in the timer subsystem.  I have been able to
work around this by applying Ingo Molnar's timer patches.
Does anyone know if this patch is in SGI's Propack 1.5?

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Mike Kravetz                                 mkr...@se...
IBM Linux Technology Center