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From: bdwheele@indiana.edu (Brian Wheeler)
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 18:28:47 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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In article <51p3e8$l2f@panix.com>,
adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) writes:
>In article <51nn4m$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).
hahaha :) I love those guys...to a point. Its kinda sad that people
don't see through the lies, though.
>
>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.
>
Hmmm. Funny thing about NT...if you take an .EXE and xor the
contents of the file with random numbers, run it, and repeat, after a few
minutes you can get a program that will KILL NT...blue screen...memory dump...
the works!
A friend of mine did this and it took less than 6 minutes.
Brian Wheeler
bdwheele@indiana.edu
>I like NT, but I'd never claim it's fast.
NT is an OK desktop OS, but as a server its terrible.
Brian Wheeler
bdwheele@indiana.edu