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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!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!panix!news.panix.com!not-for-mail From: adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) 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 11:11:04 -0400 Organization: Panix Lines: 36 Message-ID: <51p3e8$l2f@panix.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51nn4m$gn3@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130015 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27503 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43767 In article <51nn4m$gn3@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, Mark Hahn <hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu> wrote: >> 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... > For chuckles, I'd like to quote from a Microsoft document sent to MS Solution Provider program members. From "A Concise Guide to Selling Microsoft Internet Information Server", MS document # 7039A, Page 6. Support Point: Fastest Web server Evidence: Benchmark tests show IIS outperforms all other Windows NT Web Servers by at least 250%, even outrunning expensive UNIX-based solutions (which require propriety hardware). Support Point: Always Available Evidence: Web server will not crash. Protected memory and micro-kernel architecture of Windows NT server provide the most reliabel platform. I like NT, but I'd never claim it's fast. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes@panix.com