2010 - Comparing the Performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 using the AIM7 Multiuser Benchmark
This paper uses the AIM7 Multiuser Benchmark to compare the performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 5.5 to the performance of RHEL version 6 for a variety of work-load mixes.
The advantage is clear for most AIM7 workloads and is most evident on workloads that are heavily weighted toward disk I/O such as the database and file server workloads. The results share p...
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