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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!news3.buffnet.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sesqui.net!uhura.phoenix.net!usenet From: Geoff Mohler <gemohler@phoenix.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:32:26 -0700 Organization: Phoenix Data Net Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32404E4A.41C6@phoenix.net> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51nn4m$gn3@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <jimhill.843028011@kitsune> <51pbm6$97o@web.ddp.state.me.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: sgi.phoenix.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:129993 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27500 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43765 David Miller wrote: > > Jim Hill (jimhill@swcp.com) wrote: > : hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mark Hahn) writes: > > : >show me NT on an 8M p5/100 serving 300 hits/second. > : >that's not even hard with Linux. > > Hmm, bc on my systems says 300 hits/second = 26 million hits/day. I can't > do that with my bsd systems, even with a lot more memory. Yeah.. We're bringing online *it looks like* one of the "Gentleman's Magazines" WWW sites online here ourselves. We're a big BSD shop, but there is no way I would use FreeBSD for more than a 100+hit/second site. Thats why I bought a SGI Challenge-L G