[WinMac] Re: OS-X Server: Not ready for prime time yet

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:30:46 -0400

        Sigh...

        Why not actually take a look at the c't article? Here's the URL again:
<http://www.heise.de/ct/english//99/13/186-1/>.

        Also, I find it hard to believe that TSE would peg out at 99.9% CPU usage,
unless there's a configuration problem or IDE drives being used... Oops! It
also has Citrix MetaFrame loaded... Ugh. Try W2k with built-in Terminal
Server instead.

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 10:21 PM 6/28/99 -0400, John Welch wrote:
>In that case, neither is NT, as one person running Word on an NT
>Terminal Server /Citrix Metaframe box can eat 99.9% of the CPU, and it's
>only about a 3 page document. Oh, the server in question has ~580MB of
>RAM, one 8GB mirror for a system disk, and a 26GB RAID 5 array for user
>home directories. All that story proves is that it is easily possible to
>crash OSX server. The same is true of NT, Solaris, and if you know what
>you are doing, an AS/400. Big poofing deal. What I want to see is a test
>between single processor boxes running, Linux, NT, OSX Server and
>Solaris, BUT, instead of the usual 50-60 clients, which plays into NT's
>sweet spot, I want to see results with loads from 100 to 500 clients on
>one box. Somehow, I see IIS' vaunted performance curve doing a
>precipitous drop, while the *nixen stay relatively flat.
>
>John
>
>"Daniel L. Schwartz" wrote:
>>
>> Good afternoon!
>>
>> While researching NT vs linux "shootouts" by the likes of MindCraft,
Ziff-Davis, and c't (German magazine), I stumbled across, as a footnote to
the c't article, the following...
>>
>> From <http://www.heise.de/ct/english//99/13/186-1/>:
>>
>> MacOS X (re)served
>>
>> With MacOS X, Apple is targeting the server market. The Unix-based
operating system with integrated Apache is especially intended for
performance web server use. We were curious and put our test setup against
a server of this kind. However, the results can only convey a first
impression since we optimized neither MacOS X nor the integrated Apache for
this task. The entire system ran with its default settings.
>> In addition, although the G3 Mac with its PowerPC 750e (400 MHz) we used
does compare to a Pentium II Xeon (450 MHz), its memory of 128 MBytes RAM
is rather on the small side. This alone is enough reason to run this server
'out of competition' here.

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>>
>> And, reference [5], which is in the middle of the page:
>>
>> [5] CGI-MacPanic: <http://www.heise.de/ct/99/13/186/CGI-MacPanic>, see
also CGI Causes MacOS X Server To Panic
<http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/13/186/>
>>
>> It's worth noting that unlike MindCraft, the folks at c't can hardly be
called Microsoft sycophants.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Dan

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