threads and VMS [Re: dce/rpc "client" api]

[Martin Kuhne]

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Tridgell [mailto:tridge at linuxcare.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 7:55 AM
To: lkcl at samba.org
Cc: mastors at crosstor.com; jeremy at valinux.com; samba-technical at samba.org
Subject: Re: threads and VMS [Re: dce/rpc "client" api]

> > this might explain why samba's performance ramps up from a factor of 2
> > worse than NT with small numbers of netbench clients, crossing over at
> > equal performance at around 12 clients, and overtakes by a factor of 2
at
> > large numbers of clients.

> I think you might have got this backwards Luke. The results I've seen
> show Linux/Samba beating NT for small numbers of clients and losing
> for larger numbers (at least with a 2.2 kernel). 

NT is definitely not optimized to deliver highest performance to
_individual_ clients. You will need a certain number of clients to see good
performance numbers.
So what Andrew says is quite likely.

Regards,
Martin Kuhne
Escalation Engineer, Critical Problem Resolution (CPR)
Microsoft GmbH