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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!wa.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> 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 18:55:08 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3240458C.2135@www.play-hookey.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51nn4m$gn3@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <jimhill.843028011@kitsune> <51pbm6$97o@web.ddp.state.me.us> <32404E4A.41C6@phoenix.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130120 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27540 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43788 Geoff Mohler wrote: > > 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. Just for grins: one of my coworkers pointed out to me that zdnet is Ziff-Davis -- and they seem to have become prime Microsoft supporters and kiss-ups. Whose software do you *think* they'll prefer??? > > 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 -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |