
A Principled Technologies test report 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: Performance advantages with an
open source software stack
HOW DOES YOUR SOFTWARE STACK UP?
Reducing operational costs in the data center is an important consideration for
CIOs and IT managers. The operating system you select can provide a good foundation
for maximizing server hardware efficiency for your diverse workloads. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 is a high-quality operating system that provides an open source
alternative to proprietary software.
We put the performance of two software stacks to the test. The first, a LAMP
stack, used open source software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system, Apache
Web Server, MySQL database, and PHP. The second, a WIMP stack, used a combination
of propriety and open source software: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Internet
Information Services (IIS), MySQL database, and PHP. We tested the performance of the
two solutions using the DVD Store 2.1 benchmark for three levels of performance
pressure/intensity, and found that the LAMP stack was able to complete up to 3.3 times
more orders per minute than the WIMP stack. (See Figure 1.)
Figure 1: The LAMP stack
outperformed the WIMP stack by
as much as 231.6 percent in
processing online orders.
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Performance comparison
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WIMP
For system configuration information, see Appendix A. For step-by-step details
on how we tested, see Appendix B.
WHAT WE FOUND
We found that the LAMP stack was able to process more online orders than the
WIMP stack as Web traffic increased with the number of independent DVD Store Web
sites. Figure 2 shows the performance results, in orders per minute, each software
bundle could handle, as well as the percentage performance increase the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux-based stack achieved.
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