According to a benchmark, Sun's Niagara processor is over 4 times faster at serving dynamic PHP pages than a dual Xeon server. "We did real production benchmarks using different servers. Servers were put into production behind load-balancers, then weights on load-balancers were changed so we got highest number of dynamic PHP requests per second. It must sustain that number of requests for some time and no drops or request queue were allowed. With static requests numbers for Opteron and T2000 were even better but we are mostly interested in dynamic pages."
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Member since:2006-02-20
"Maybe price/performance wasn't explicitly written all over the place, but that's because the author (erroneously, it turns out!) thought he was dealing with readers who have a bit of common sense."
This is one of the worst attitudes a person can have. I emplore this of everyone, don't assume your readers know what you know. Friendly discourse and the willingness to listen and learn are hallmarks or progression. Expecting someone to know what you know then saying something condescending like this should be common sense really isn't productive.
If you tear apart the blurb and the blog, there is NOTHING written about price or price/performance. In fact, the blurb misleadingly states that the (singular) Niagra processor trounced the dual Xeon processor by four times the performance without mention of price or price/performance. If that was the point of the blurb-blog, then why as I as a reader, didn't get that from the article, especially since the blurb-blog nevers mentions that?
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2005-07-06
That is the whole point of the benchmark, to show that a computer that is cheap to buy and cheap to operate (not to mention that with ALOM and such it's enourmeously more practical to manage) is also performing well.
Maybe price/performance wasn't explicitly written all over the place, but that's because the author (erroneously, it turns out!) thought he was dealing with readers who have a bit of common sense.
Edited 2006-02-20 16:37