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  From: Andrew Galdes <AGaldes@elders.com.au>
  To  : Nathan Millhouse <nmlinuxsa@voidnet.com.au>
        Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@richardsharpe.com>
  Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:20:12 +0930

RE: SAMBA vs Windows 2003 Server

I have never seen the word "kernel" appear so oftern in a "Windows2k" article before...

AG.


> Thanks for that Richard,
> 
> my next question to all of you out there is are these 
> benchmarks to be 
> trusted. Server 2003 is shown to perform _way_ faster than 
> the current 
> SAMBA releases
> anyone know it this is this more smoke and mirrors stuff, or does it 
> actually do that much better.
> 
> Nathan Millhouse
> 
> 
> Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Nathan Millhouse wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Hi everyone,
> >>
> >>after reading an interview done with a Windows 2003 server 
> kernel hacker 
> >>(http://www.zdnet.com.au/builder/dotnet/story/0,2000042147,2
0273997,00.htm)
>>it has left me wondering, how does SAMBA compare with the 2003 server in 
>>terms of SMB performance?
>>I have actually never seen any stat comparisons such as benchmarks 
>>comparing the products.  Anyone know of any?
>>    
>>
>
>There are netbench numbers for a number of products up on www.veritest.com 
>...
>
>I must say that the latest numbers with the Veritest TOE look good on an 
>8-way SMP box, but I know IBM was betting very good numbers on Linux with 
>Samba on a 4-way (more than) a little while ago.
>
>Regards
>-----
>Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
>sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
>
>  
>



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