RE: Does anyone run test win vs. linux and can share how muchfaster is linux than windows, please?

  • From: "Kline.Michael" <Michael.Kline@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:02:25 -0400

This more of a general "test" that I did several years ago.

We had a Linux box that had Oracle 8 on it, it was the backup email
server, the backup DNS.

I was working with some software, so I started up a script that stressed
the database to about 95-100% cpu and held it there. Then I was using
the software to see what it would tell me about that "stress" that I was
inflicting on the database. Just a test.

About 3 months later we had a new copy of the software, so I thought I'd
point to that Version 8 database on the linux box. I was surprised to
find the box was in the BILLIONS of I/O on a box that even after 3
months should have been less than a million. Not know what in the world
could be wrong, I took a closer look.

I had forgot to stop the "stress script". The box had been pushed to
95-100% cpu, it had never hiccupped on the database, the email or the
DNS. I stopped the script and everything went back to normal.

This wasn't a "performance" test of sorts, but most of my Windows
servers would have choked big time trying to do that kind of load. I
have had windows servers that would cook nicely for 3-5 months at a time
though.

Michael Kline
Database Administration
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