Thanks to Jeremy Allison
and John Mark Walker
for this link.
Jeremy writes:
PC Week have published their own independent Linux vs Solaris vs
NetWare vs NT benchmark results at :
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/jumps/0,4270,401961,00.html
This is very interesting with respect to the Mindcraft results
as the PC Week numbers are very close to the results I get in my
lab here at SGI. Only Mindcraft seem unable to reproduce any
reasonable Linux results.
The results show (as I expected) Windows NT beats Linux and
Samba handsomely when serving Windows 95 clients.
On the “Drilling down into Windows NT, Samba tests” page however
:
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2256098,00.html
We see an analysis of Windows NT’s poor performance as a server
to Windows NT clients.
“Samba running on the Penguin Computing Linux server with an NT
Workstation client load dusted NT Server with 197M-bps throughput.
More importantly, Samba had minimal performance degradation at
higher client loads. In tests with 60 clients, Windows NT managed
only 110M-bps throughput compared with 183M bps for Samba.”
I hope this will satify people looking for fair benchmark
results. I personally will refrain from participating in any
benchmark in which Mindcraft is involved.