win 95 client - VMS cluster SAMBA server
James Hughes
jamesh at interpath.com
Tue Oct 7 17:32:07 GMT 1997
M. Damerell wrote:
>
> << Are there any known problems...
>
> I was told that VMS's spawn() is much slower than Unix's
> fork() and this makes a VMS server very slow. Hearsay only,
> I have no personal knowledge of this.
I did a benchmark of file sharing with NT against VMS with Winbench. NT
was 2x faster with Pathworks clients and 5x faster with Windows for
Workgroups clients. Linux (486-50,EISA,8MBRAM,SCSI) as fast as NT
(Pentium-60,PCI,32MBRAM,SCSI).
-James
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