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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!not-for-mail From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: 17 Jul 1996 23:15:38 -0500 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4skdpa$4ek@Mercury.mcs.com> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4sc2lk$d3l@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4sg7ho$brs@Mercury.mcs.com> <4si7td$cta@mark.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:55770 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23879 In article <4si7td$cta@mark.ucdavis.edu>, David E. O'Brien <obrien@Nuxi.com> wrote: >Leslie Mikesell (les@MCS.COM) wrote: >: That is, it is the combination of apps/OS that is important by the time >: you actually do anything. Most people don't have the expertise to tune >: a generic kernel for their intended use. Even Windows NT appears to be >: so difficult to tune that it is shipped in workstation/server editions. > >You are alittle off with your Windows NT attack. I hate NT myself, but to >accurate... NT server has conciderable functionality added to the basic >workstation version. This includes the ability to be a Domain Controler >(aka NIS+ish master), Apple talk file server, file server to > 8 clients, >and more I don't remember. And yes, the kernel is also tuned toward being >a server vs. a desktop workstation. I've heard complaints about responsiveness when people tried to use an NT server as a workstation, even when none of the services were active. I don't have much experience with this myself, the only NT machine I've set up wouldn't do what I wanted so I replaced it fairly quickly with Linux. But the point in the previous context was that NT is at least in theory supposed to be easy to set up yet it comes in at least 2 pre-configured versions. I see nothing wrong with similar pre-tuned unix versions aimed at different uses. Les Mikesell les@mcs.com