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From: dillon@best.com (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: 19 Sep 1996 09:38:29 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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Distribution: world
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References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <jimhill.843028011@kitsune> <51pbm6$97o@web.ddp.state.me.us> <32404E4A.41C6@phoenix.net>
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:In article <32404E4A.41C6@phoenix.net>,
:Geoff Mohler <gemohler@phoenix.net> 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.
:>
:>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
I got bad news for you then... BEST is using a challenge L for serving
it's user pages, and it appears to max out at around 70 hits/sec. There
are just too many bottlenecks in the kernel. IRIX becomes very unhappy
when you try to scale it up. We are actually migrating *back* to
FreeBSD using Pentium Pro 200's now.
IF you are really in love with SGI, I would suggest you get a couple
of Indy's or S's and avoid the overpriced L's.
-Matt
--
Matthew Dillon Engineering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
<dillon@best.net>
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