On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 20:04:11 +0100 Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com wrote:
On Sunday 05 June 2005 7:01 pm, Ten wrote:
In testing Mac OS X against linux, at no point did the author think to run linux on the Mac hardware.
They instead ran benchmarks between two Xeon systems andone Opteron system running linux, against one G5 running OS X, but NO LINUX ON THE G5. Aaargh.
Yes the same thing crossed my mind as that was exactly the test I was searching for. Strangely I cannot find a good (reasonably unbiased and
scientific) test of that kind.
Supprisingly interesting article. I think Macintosh computers are lovely as thier OS is unsupparsed in terms of end user experiance. I want icewm, xterm beets the mac OS terminal, which reminds me of rxvt in "turms" that I have played with.
Linux on the mac hardware is said to have better gcc opimisation than gcc on intel, which is slower is not somthing IO know, this little knowlage plus the text with the review begs the question as to why they did not benchmark linux on the Mac hardware, How fast will MacOS seem when it runs on a AMD64? I bet it builds just fine.
I myself would follow the pack and go for a 64 bit AMD if I wanted high performance 64 bit computing. I would also pick a motherboard with two seperate PCI busses as I am more IO bound than CPU bound with the people I work for.
Network and disk subsystems on the 2.6.12 systems have been benchmarked for disk to disk transfers over the network card at almost a third faster than the 2.4 kernels so I have been told. I dont know much more, but the people who said this I trust.
Regards
Owen Synge