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From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 20 Sep 1996 10:19:00 -0500 Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Lines: 19 Message-ID: <s8k9tp6wpn.fsf@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51nn4m$gn3@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <51p3e8$l2f@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hill.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.39/Emacs 19.34 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!chronos.syr.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!usenet Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130525 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27657 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43879 > 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). May be true if you are running your web server doing reverse name lookups. This is specially bad with all of those machines that do not have a DNS entry. New versions of Apache have a way to toggle this behaviour off. This is the default for IIS: it does not do reverse name lookups and thus saves a lot of time. With the new version of Apache there is a program included for converting the log files with IP addresses to log files with hostnames. Hope this helps, Miguel.