*BSD News Article 78869


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!dcook
From: dcook@xenu.utexas.edu (David M. Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: 23 Sep 1996 01:22:14 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Lines: 13
Message-ID: <slrn54bpdv.mbf.dcook@xenu.utexas.edu>
References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51pog8$1gj@newsbr.eunet.fr> <Dy0K58.MLv@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <32423719.6904CE4@julia.de> <51uo7m$bu9@magic.metawire.com> <3244780C.23B6AB75@aug.com> <52400f$t6r@topeka.cjnetworks.com>
Reply-To: davecook@mail.utexas.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-42-9.ots.utexas.edu
X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8 UNIX)
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130840 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27735 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43940

On 22 Sep 1996 18:19:59 GMT, tdsmith@topeka.cjnetworks.com <tdsmith@topeka.cjnetworks.com> wrote:
>In article <3244780C.23B6AB75@aug.com>, Wayne <wroberts@aug.com> writes:

>>Hmmmmm....... On my screen, that looked like 70.000 with a period [...] 

>Yup.  It's a dot.  

So the guy is saying that he gets 70 hits, and that his measurement is
accurate to the nearest thousandth of a hit?  Does he sometimes get 70.156
hits? 

Dave Cook