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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