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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver2.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!news.nrl.navy.mil!talmage From: talmage@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (David Talmage) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: optimal system for WWW server? Date: 10 Aug 1995 13:34:52 GMT Organization: Connection Machine Facility, NRL Lines: 27 Message-ID: <TALMAGE.95Aug10093453@riker.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> References: <ERICDING.95Jul28142614@gaston.mit.edu> <3vbp0p$ddo@inews.sc.intel.com> <DD03C3.IqH@info.swan.ac.uk> <408rmp$fbu@news4.digex.net> <DD207s.3xH.0.-s@cs.vu.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: riker.cmf.nrl.navy.mil In-reply-to: philip@cs.vu.nl's message of Wed, 9 Aug 1995 17:21:27 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:729 comp.os.linux.networking:11346 In article <DD207s.3xH.0.-s@cs.vu.nl> philip@cs.vu.nl (Philip Homburg) writes: >In article <408rmp$fbu@news4.digex.net>, >Trident Systems <trident@access2.digex.net> wrote: >%Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk) wrote: >%: In article <3vbp0p$ddo@inews.sc.intel.com> mwilley@xws181.sc.intel.com (Mark F Willey) writes: >%: >Well, your ethernet card is going to be faster than the ISDN link, so that's not >%: >it... I'd get a pentium (100++) with PCI everything, SCSI disks, PCI ethernet. >% >%: Grossout way to spend too much money. Web server is where to put your >%: surplus 486 boxes. >% >%We're running out Web server from a 486SX and it works just fine for 50+ >%connections a day (not great but decent considering we didn't spend much >%on it). > >I know a 386/33 that did >100000 connections/day (>1GBytes/day). >Does anyone know about a top 10 of small heavily loaded machines? >(Heavy? This is only a bit more than one fork() and 12KB per second...) You guys must be doing something wrong. I get over 100000 connections per second to my Timex-Sinclair running a web server in interpreted BASIC. Your mileage will vary. ;-) David Talmage Kaman Sciences Corporation talmage@cmf.nrl.navy.mil