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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!oce.nl!not-for-mail!qqehe From: qqehe@st13-oa6.oce.nl (Emiliano) Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: st13-oa6 Message-ID: <DxxC6z.DvH@oce.nl> Sender: news@oce.nl (The Daily News @ nntp01.oce.nl) Reply-To: emile.heyns@hta.nl Organization: Good idea. I'll get to that later this week. X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.4 (BETA) UNIX) References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51mts0$6j3@ezekiel.ieunet.ie> <51nmug$9sg@opal.southwind.net> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:37:47 GMT Lines: 45 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:129857 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27462 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43745 On 18 Sep 1996 02:31:44 GMT, Mark A. Martin <markm@southwind.net> wrote: >In article <51mts0$6j3@ezekiel.ieunet.ie>, nick@Ireland.EU.net says... >> >>Subhas Roy (subhas@pobox.com) said: >>: 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. >> >>Sounds just like the sort of sycophantic Gates-is-god dross you'd expect >>from PC Computing (or indeed most other ZD publications). >> >>One interesting things about this article is that the reviewers completely >>failed to give any idea about what hardware was used, what version of Unix >>was used and what the final figures were. Their description of the test >>sounded arbitrary at best and useless and misleading at worst. What on >>earth do they mean by "to process a request"? Do they mean query a >>database? Fetch a file from a disk? Run a cgi command? >> >>Apart from the pricing information, one could probably dismiss this a wholly >>content-free article. >> >>Nick > >HUH ?? >We have a brand shiny new 133 running NT and it SUCKS big time. I dusted off >an old IBM RS/6000 520 with 64 MB ram and set up the NCSA server on it. >Viola! A web server for 1500 Engineers, our 30 man software development >staff, and a lot of cgi apps. and NOBODY ever complains about performance ! >(and using AIX 3.2.5, not 4.1.3) Good for you. Now tell me, in what way does this relate to the above remarks on ZDnet? -- Bye, Emile =========================================================== the views ... employer =========================================================== Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln