From: "Joe Barr" 

On Fri, 09 May 2003 18:40:22 -0500, Joe Barr wrote:

>
> http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0509.barr.html
>
> Microsoft claims Windows 2003 Server is twice as fast as Linux, at least
> when it's used for file serving. I spoke to Jeremy Allison, head of the
> Samba team, who provided a few insights into the test configurations that
> don't leap out at the reader because they are hidden away in appendixes to
> the benchmark document. Allison feels this, in itself, is substantially
> responsible for the outcome.


Here are two more ways MS rigged the comparison of W2K+3 against RHL.

1.  On the Windows side, they performed a tweak to turn off logging last
access time.  But on the Linux side, they do not do the same on the Linux
side.  It could be done with chattr or with fsutils.

Unless you wanted to penalize one OS over the other that is.  Then you
would turn it off for that one, like MS did for W2K+3, and leave it on for
Linux.  So Linux was doing an extra write for every read.  Um...those shit
eatting maggots in Redmond are good at lying and cheating, aren't they?

2.  On the Windows side, they set the cluster size to 64K.  On the Linux
side, they left it at 512 bytes.  That is 512 bytes versus 65,536.  Wow.
Those chickenshit little bastards in Redmond are scared to death.  They
don't usually cheat this much.







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