Re: Is Tru64 actually faster

From: erik (erik_at_geenspam.vanwesten.net)
Date: 12/07/03 

Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 11:41:55 +0100

Sylvain Robitaille wrote:

> erik wrote:
>
>> For a nice comparison: I have two sendmail boxes (identical alpha's).
>> One is suffering from high load, the other is doing virually nothing.
>> The latter is running linux, and then even an old, not very good at
>> smp, kernel. Both boxes are treated equally by the loadbalancer.
>>
>> The true64 machine also could not cope well with large amounts of
>> files in the queues, where the linux machine had no problems at all.
>>
>> It makes one wonder why tru64 is _that_ slow.
>
> What version of Tru64? I've found that installing 5.1A on older
> systems (that were performing just fine with 4.0[bdefg]) resulted in
> serious
> performance degradation. The 5.x systems appear to be primarily
> optimized for the newer hardware (replacing our then crippled systems
> has restored them to performance measurements that are around what I
> expect).
>

Version 5.1. But I cannot believe that performance degradation when
there are a lot of files in a directory can have anything to do with
old hardware. That basically smells like a design flaw.

EJ 

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