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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:43:01 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 32 Message-ID: <32488E25.196D@OntheNet.com.au> 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> <51qu62$3n2@newsbr.eunet.fr> <51uema$nd3@nr1.toronto.istar.net> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:131511 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27926 comp.infosystems.www.misc:44063 Chris Tyler wrote: > > Frederic G. MARAND wrote: > > 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. > > Right! Now consider which OS is used on those systems. Digital's cozy > with Microsoft, but they're not crazy enough to try and run AltaVista on > NT. ... and even then, the people at NSL (Network Systems Labs, Palo Alto) had to make special customisations to Digital Unix (aka OSF/1) to allow it to handle the large number of TCP connections and the rapid turn-over of these connections. Various other system 'tuning' was required as well, and these have been fed back into the Digital Unix product. It will be several years before NT has been placed under the same sort and variety of load conditions that Unix (and VMS and MVS, and ...) has been coping with. Look for an "industrial strength" NT in maybe V5 when people might deploy in on 10+ processor Alpha/P6+/PPC systems with multiple GB of RAM and >100 GB os disk! [Digital is doing the 64-bit port of NT for MS for just this reason] > > -- > Chris Tyler <CTyler@Oxford.net> > Global Proximity Corporation (519) 421-3541 / fax (519) 421-2107 > Internet and Computer Consulting Tony (ex-DEC who runs NT, Digital Unix, FreeBSD, et al on numerous boxes)