Re: OFFTOPIC: Regarding NT vs Linux

Andreas Kostyrka (andreas@ag.or.at)
Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:39:33 +0000 (GMT)


On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Sachin Garg wrote:

> What I would like to know is how much of this hype surrounding NT is true?
> Guys talk about NT supporting SMP on upto 4 processors and enterprise
> version upto 8 processors. What is Linux's limit of SMP, if any? NT runs
Win/NT SMP sucks. C't (a german magazine tested SMP boxes) found, that it
doesn't scale very much, because it seems that interrupts are done only on
one processor. Linux 2.0/SMP sucks probably even more :(, as it has a
global spin lock :(((((

Andreas