-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of FL Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 3:02 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Windows Apache & IIS vs Linux Apache performancedifferences
Question: is this comparison between LAMP vs WIMP implementations of the same software being made on molecularly identical hardware? The LAMP configuration is about 3 1/2 times faster than the WIMP configuration.
The comparison is on vastly different hardware. The LAMP hardware is a Pentium 3 laptop at 850Mhz, 200MB RAM. The WIMP hardware is a Pentium 4 server at 2+ Ghz, 512MB RAM.
This actually makes the speed of the LAMP implementation even more stunning; at half the CPU and half the RAM, it's consistently 4 times faster than the WIMP server.
- Troy Thompson