RE: Keep It Clean

From: mars1972@my-deja.com > >In article <8ccc53$bi5$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, >I think that if performance is the issue, there are several things to >consider. You can buy cheaper hardware for NT, and therefore spend the >same amount of money for faster processors (for example). This is >because on most UNIX OSs, a 300 MHz processor costs X dollars, while a >500 MHz processor for NT costs the same X dollars. (these are just made >up examples) Yes but most of the RISC chips although slower in Hz should be capable of running 'real' instructions faster. I also wasn't aware of an 8MB cache Intel chop being available, at least the RISC chips have decently sized caches. I accept they're not cheap. >Second, UNIX runs on a much faster kernel than NT, which offsets the >cost somewhat. >The cost of administrating NT is less, but the remote admin tools for >UNIX offset this also, in my opinion. I'm sorry but I think that is totally spheroids. A few months back four of us were running a little over 400 production servers for one of the utilities, there was 4 people running the Novell servers, about 300, and over 20 to run 200(ish) NT servers. Another 400 NT servers were planned and the NT team was expected to double. >Lastly, while both OSs support multiple processors, there was a white >paper published a while ago (sorry, I can't give you a link), that >described the benefits of installing multiple processors on both OSs. >On UNIX, they noticed an 80% increase in performance for adding a second >processor and every processor after that, while on NT, they only got 50% >for each. Therefore, the hardware may be cheaper, but you also get less >benefit from it. In my experience with NT you get increases up to 3 processors, the fourth one just seems to give morale support to the others. >One other thing, I really hate the fact that on NT, if you change >something on the system (add a new NIC card, etc) I had to reinstall the >latest service pack before I rebooted or the machine wouldn't come back >up and the emergency disks did me absolutely no good. 'You've just opened Notepad, please reboot to continue' Paul Watson # WFSoftware Ltd # If in doubt Tel: +44 1436 674729 # make it up Fax: +44 1436 678693 # www.wfsoftware.com/informix #