On Thursday 12 May 2005 18:54, Matthew Stringer wrote:
Hi,
I posted on here last month that a client of mine wished to benchmark Suse 9.1/SEL9 Vs Red Hat ES4.
We ran 6 identical 64 bit machines load ballenced running a high volume website with Apache and Informix.
The Suse boxes outstripped the Red Hat ones by 2-1; the response time is almost twice as quick and the CPU/MEM usage is much lower.
Both boxes were exactly the same spec running linux built with the same packages and configs.
I would have thought that they would have been almost exactly the same. Can anyone explain why there would be such a difference?
I've always waved the Suse flag but this is ridiculous!
It does sound like a big difference. Is it possible for you to post the configurations of the systems somewhere? And the testing methodology you used?