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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!nntp.primenet.com!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!due.unit.no!pvv.ntnu.no!toriver From: toriver@pvv.ntnu.no (Tor Iver Wilhelmsen) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 18 Sep 1996 12:21:56 GMT Organization: Not much. Papers flow all over the desk. The exit is south. What now? Lines: 20 Message-ID: <51oph4$4vj@due.unit.no> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: voldsboks.pvv.ntnu.no Originator: toriver@pvv.ntnu.no Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:129843 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27454 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43739 Subhas Roy <subhas@pobox.com> writes: >A ZDnet article says in the web page >http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/fea1096/sub4.html#jump2 >that Windows NT-based servers run much faster (as much as 13 >times) when client counts are low. > >Is that possible? Anybody wants to comment on the >article's claim? Well, if they by "UNIX" means a Version 7 system running on a PDP-11 w/128 kB memory, using a /bin/sh script as a server, and they by "NT" mean a top-trimmed NT Server 4.0 running on a 4-processor 200MHz P6 system, _then_ you can speak of a 13 to 1 factor. :-) - Tor Iver -- Tor Iver Wilhelmsen * toriver@pvv.unit.no http://www.pvv.unit.no/~toriver Solbakken 2 * "Granny never got lost. She always knew where she was. N-1410 Kolbotn * The problem was, the rest of the world didn't." Norway * - Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites