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Web and File Server Comparison:
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 and
Red Hat Linux 5.2 Upgraded to the Linux 2.2.2 Kernel
Executive Summary
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as a File
Server and 3.7 times faster as a Web Server
Mindcraft tested the file-server and Web-server performance of Microsoft
Windows NT Server 4.0 and Red Hat Linux 5.2 upgraded to the Linux 2.2.2
kernel (in this report referred to simply as Linux) on a Dell PowerEdge 6300/400
server. For Linux, we used Samba 2.0.3 as the SMB file server and Apache 1.3.4
as the Web server. For Windows NT Server we used its embedded SMB file
server and Internet Information Server 4.0 Web server.