Re: Windows performance

On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:43:55 -0800, John R Pierce
<pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:

>On 2/12/2016 2:28 PM, George Neuner wrote:
>> In Linux the distinction between a "workstation" and a "server" is
>> largely a matter of system configuration. Windows "desktop" and
>> "server" editions are different code bases: there are no magic
>> settings that can make one equivalent to the other.
>
>thats not actually true, the kernels are built from the same code base,

Technicality: the "code base" may be the same but the _code_ is not.

Corresponding[*] desktop and server editions install different code
for a number of key modules. This is easily verified by comparing the
installations.

[*] server 2008 <> windows 7
server 2012 <> windows 8

Haven't seen server 2016 yet.

>but there are internal settings that change the behavior defaults in the
>scheduler, like prioritizing services vs the desktop. these settings
>have been obfuscated, at one time you could tweak them in the registry.

You still can tweak a great many things IFF you know how. But it
isn't (and never was) possible to tweak a desktop into a server.

George