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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc 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!news.thenet.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.interactive.net!onyx.interactive.net!not-for-mail From: ritz@onyx.interactive.net (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: Tuning BSD as Web Server (was Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?) X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960817] X-Nntp-Posting-User: ritz Sender: news@interactive.net (System Administrator) Organization: IBS Interactive, Inc. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <Dy33xK.GvE@interactive.net> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <jimhill.843028011@kitsune> <51pbm6$97o@web.ddp.state.me.us> <32404E4A.41C6@phoenix.net> <51rsu5$6je@flash.noc.best.net> <WINDLEY.96Sep20085157@margay.cs.byu.edu> X-Trace: 843312295/21708 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: onyx.interactive.net Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 13:24:56 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27703 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4936 In comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Phillip J. Windley <windley@lal.cs.byu.edu> wrote: : >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon <dillon@best.com> writes: : Matthew> I got bad news for you then... BEST is using a challenge L : Matthew> for serving it's user pages, and it appears to max out at : Matthew> around 70 hits/sec. There are just too many bottlenecks in : Matthew> the kernel. IRIX becomes very unhappy when you try to scale : Matthew> it up. We are actually migrating *back* to FreeBSD using : Matthew> Pentium Pro 200's now. : Matthew> IF you are really in love with SGI, I would suggest you : Matthew> get a couple of Indy's or S's and avoid the overpriced L's. : Let me try to turn this conversation to something I've been wondering : about. : I'm convinced (by my gut) that BSD (free or not) can support large numbers : of hits on a web server only with some fine tuning. The same is probably : true of the web server as well (Aliasing is done, for example, using a : linear search---thus slowing down *every* hit). : Anyone with experience in this who is willing to share tips on tuning BSD : to handle hundreds of hits per second? Sure. Check out www.bsdi.com. There are a couple of pages that talk about various tuning steps you can take to make a higher performance web box. Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@interactive.net | finger/mail info@interactive.net OR IBS Interactive, Inc. | http://www.interactive.net/