(RADIATOR) Radiator test-fest

[Mike McCauley]

Hello Tariq,


On Friday 08 April 2005 23:21, Tariq Rashid wrote:
> which OS runs radiator best for high-volume traffic loads?
>
> so things that might become important are scheduling, how quickly sockets
> can be created and opened, the speed of teh tcp stack, the UDP processing,
> does perl run slower on some OSes? does writing accoutning records to a
> journalled or other filesystem make a difference (xfs, reiserfs, over etx2
> and ufs/ffs)?
>
> or is the difference too insignificant.

We did not measure OS overheads on any of these systems.
Our experience is that OS overhead is usually not very significant in Radiator 
performance.

Cheers.

>
> tariq
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike McCauley [mailto:mikem at open.com.au]
> Sent: 08 April 2005 06:56
> To: radiator at open.com.au
> Subject: (RADIATOR) Radiator test-fest
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> We have been testing on a number of new distribution here recently. We are
> happy to report successful testing of Radiator 3.12 on all the OSs below:
>
> Fedora Core 3.
> Solaris 10.
> Sun Java Desktop Release 2.
> Knoppix 3.7.
> Flash Linux 0.3.1 (on USB key)
> SuSE 9.2.
> FreeSBIE 1.1.
> MEPIS 3.3.

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