IBM eServers and Redhat Tux 2.0 Set New SPECweb Records

Jun 27, 2001, 14:45 (8 Talkback[s])

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IBM has published a brief report that eSever x232 and x342 servers recorded number-one results for SPECweb99 performance in 1- and 2-way configurations using the 1.13GHz(1) Pentium III with 512KB L2 cache and 4GB of memory, and running Red Hat Linux 7.1 with TUX 2.0.

Both servers supported a total of 3,227 simultaneous connections in a 2-way configuration, and 1,820 simultaneous connections in a 1-way configuration. These results set a new record for Intel-based 2-way SMP servers.

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