OFFTOPIC: Benchmarking hype

[Daniel Fonseca]

Hi there!

I know this is way off-topic by I should consider this a
must-non-to-be-missed reading for everyone involved in here. Tremendous.
Great stuff Jeremy!!!


A Samba-eye view of the recent Mindcraft NT vs Linux benchmark: Trust no
one

In "Trust no one," Samba developer Jeremy Allison details his objections
to the
recent Microsoft-sponsored benchmark which found Windows NT is 2.5 times
faster than Linux/Samba as a file server, and 3.7 times faster than
Apache/Linux as a Web server. While, as Jeremy points out, the Mindcraft
whitepaper gives excellent administrative tips on how best to fine-tune an
NT
file server, the Linux machine in the benchmark was completely untuned.
Jeremy's response, "Trust no one," describes a few of the ways you (and
Mindcraft) can get better performance from Samba.

http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-04/lw-04-mindcraft.html?04-21