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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 06:57:30 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL / Lines: 18 Message-ID: <51qu62$3n2@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <323EE2A3.2C23B8A2@sullivan.bentley.com> <51kn0h$1i1@newsbr.eunet.fr> <DxzAw5.EEG@interactive.net> <32413ece.157716099@news6.erols.com> <32414673.3BEF@metrosol.demon.co.uk> <51pog8$1gj@newsbr.eunet.fr> <Dy0K58.MLv@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <32423719.6904CE4@julia.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: demo3-cng.s-ip.eunet.fr X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130501 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27648 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43875 >I don't have to buy more TCP-sockets, when I will really need them. >There is/were a limit of >10 sockets a time in NT. Surprising: even on Win3.11 with MS TCP/IP 32 3.11A, there are already 16 sockets.. >I tested a i486 with apache to make 70.000 hits/s and only have load 4. I think for such claims to be meaningful, you have to run them for as long as required to get all data out of your RAM cache and require lots of disk access. That means accessing lots of URLs, with documents larges enough so that the set of documents accessed is far larger than the available memory. This is when the measurement gets significant. Think of the load on servers like altavista or lycos..these perform database access and compose pags on the fly, besides sending them.