“In response to the Mindcraft benchmarks of Linux against
Windows NT, the German technical computer magazine c’t has run
benchmarks of its own, comparing the Windows NT/IIS combination
with the Linux/Apache combination. C’t’s approach has been to
adjust the some of the basic conditions used in the Mindcraft
benchmark to reflect a realistic web server set up.”
“he benchmark was run on a Siemens Primergy 870 web server with
four Pentium II Xeon CPUs running at 450 MHz, 2 Gb RAM and two
network boards (Intel EtherPro 100). The system also included a
RAID controller (Mylex DAC 960) and RAID disks. The system cost was
about $52,000 (DM 100,000) and the European S.u.S.E. Linux 6.1 was
used (updated to the latest kernel version 2.2.9) and Windows NT
4.0. (updated to Service Pack 4)”
Related:
c’t: Linux and
NT as Web Server on the Test Bed