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Don't know how many ppl saw/read the following: http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1015266,00.html One of the comments on Slashdot was the question as to how well 4.4lite would have done in the same tests, as they "theorize" that alot of the problems revolve around Linux's IP stack... Now if only we had a working MMAP, we'd be all set... M...

...fess I helped with. This was done at PC Week (another USA trade press magazine) and was in a large server configuration. This was a VA Research 4 x 450MHz Xeon processor machine, with 18GB of storage in a RAID 5 configuration and 2GB of memory. This article may be found at : http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,387766,00.html titled: "Linux: Enterprise-ready". There are no comparitive NT numbers in this benchmark. The reason for that is that NT on the multiprocessor box performed so poorly in the test (a factor of 5 slower than Samba) that both PC Week and myself were conv...