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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!wa.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!newsreader.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu!hahn From: hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mark Hahn) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Date: 18 Sep 1996 02:35:02 GMT Organization: Learning Research and Development Center at U. of Pittsburgh Lines: 13 Message-ID: <51nn4m$gn3@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:129869 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27463 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43748 > 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. this is asinine. show me NT on an 8M p5/100 serving 300 hits/second. that's not even hard with Linux. the sad thing is that these people think they're in the know... regards, mark hahn. -- operator may differ from spokesperson. hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu http://neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu/~hahn/