RE: Linux or W2K

I agree. In the performance domain, I'm repeatedly horrified to find out that a routine syscall in the Windows kernel can require 2x to 5x more CPU service than the corresponding syscall in Linux.

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Go linux man. It will consume less of your resources than W2K leaving more for your instances. It will also use standard shell scripting and such that

if you need to scale to a different *NIX your scripts go along A LOT easier.

In fact, many of our scritps here are transparent between HPUX and Linux (we

use ksh on both). Stability is better and security is a lot easier to lock down.

  On Thursday 24 April 2003 01:11, Joshua Becker wrote:
> Hi all, we have bought the hardware already so it has been decided but
> where we are able to influence is the OS should I start using Linux or
W2K
> when I will have three instances with total size upto 200Gig used as DW
> with max 20-30 users altogether. The hardware is Compaq DL380 G3
2x2.8GHz
> ... Any ideas, or is there any good links I could read some benchmarks
> etc... rgdsJoshua Gå före i kön och få din sajt värderad på nolltid med
> Yahoo! Express

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