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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.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.up.net!news.mtu.edu!msunews!news From: Steve Dunham <dunham@gdl.msu.edu> 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 23:06:46 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 37 Sender: dunham@dunham.tcimet.net Message-ID: <m2g248fw6x.fsf@dunham.tcimet.net> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51nn4m$gn3@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <jimhill.843028011@kitsune> <51pbm6$97o@web.ddp.state.me.us> <32404E4A.41C6@phoenix.net> <3246D415.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: dunham.tcimet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.69) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-MSUnetID: dunham X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:131126 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27807 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43991 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Geoff Mohler wrote: > > 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 > > *grin*. I think you really need to talk to BEST Internet, over at > http://www.best.net - they might even have a few Challenge machines to > sell at reasonable prices, having already tried this! :) FWIW, I mentioned the Best case to a friend who uses these machines, his response: : That is one point. But the other is that the Challenge L (R10000 : based) is designed and optimized as a computational server (which : means speed of operation is optimized over multitasking or interrupt : handling (i.e. network)), and SGI makes it pretty clear you shouldn't : be using one for a file or web server, and should buy an S. : : FWIW, we have an S, and it makes a *wonderful* nfs/web server. : And there is no doubt about it, the S way outperforms both FreeBSD and : Linux on a PPro 200 when it comes to handling multiple network : interfaces. : : That said, the S is six times the cost of a good Ppro (if you get the : Ppros like the S, no monitor, minimal graphics), Looks like they bought the wrong machine for the job. Steve dunham@gdl.msu.edu