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

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
To: ldutra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:31:29 +0100

On 8/10/05, Leandro Guimaraes Faria C. Dutra <ldutra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> > The impact that the actual o/s has on performance is negligble
> > when looking at issues such as configuration, software design,
> > implementation and so on.
> 
> OK, but that does not preclude the possibility of a specific
> application depending on something that was badly implemented in a
> particular OS. And if that particular OS already makes part in a
> low-quality culture, the chances of hitting particularly badly implemented
> components in the platform is quite high.

  For example directIO on Linux filesystems perhaps? Certainly I view the 
Linux culture as shown on /. to be low-quality. Something tells me that 
wasn't quite what you had in mind though. 
  Personally I'm with the earlier contributor who suggested that the raw 
performance of an OS is a poor factor to make the driving force behind OS 
decisions. Factors such as the available skillsets of your staff (and 
candidates in your geographical area), support from both the OS and 
application vendors, hardware support and so on will be more important it 
seems to me. I'd argue that many of the same factors apply to rdbms choice 
these days as well. 

-- 
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com

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