Star Higher and Further: The Innovations of Linux 2.6.28
Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 25th Dec 2008 07:50 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Linux Heise Open Source provides an extensive breakdown of the innovations present in the latest release of the Linux kernel, announced by Linus Torvalds. This version adds the first version of Ext4 as a stable filesystem, the much-anticipated GPU memory manager which will be the foundation of a renewed graphic stack, support for Ultra Wide Band (Wireless USB, UWB-IP), memory management scalability and performance improvements, a boot tracer, disk shock protection, the phonet network protocol, support of SSD discard requests, transparent proxy support, high-resolution poll()/select()... full Changelog here
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PlatformAgnostic
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2006-01-02

Thanks for giving the details of your operation. It doesn't sound like that's a particularly heavy workload, so I doubt you're hitting a design limitation of Windows Server. It seems like a case of misconfiguration.

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sbergman27 Member since:
2005-07-24

It seems like a case of misconfiguration.

Yes. It must be his configuration, and the user's fault. That old cop out seems lamer and lamer every time I see it used.

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davidsarmstrong Member since:
2008-12-26

Very well could be a config issue. It was setup by the vendor of the software. They seemed competent, but who knows.

I have a friend, who worked in a shop of similar size (50 workstations) which was a pure Windows shop. They have a full-time network/admin and they had to get a 70,000 Euro server to handle the load, mostly because they are using terminal server. For whatever reason, it seems alot of Windows shops require alot of maintenance and heavy duty servers.

Thanks for giving the details of your operation. It doesn't sound like that's a particularly heavy workload, so I doubt you're hitting a design limitation of Windows Server. It seems like a case of misconfiguration.

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