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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-e2a.gnn.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!van.istar!west.istar!n1van.istar!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!scanner.worldgate.com!skunkworks.specialty.ab.ca!brolls From: jbg@specialty.ab.ca (Jason George) 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 96 20:26:45 GMT Organization: Specialty Installations Ltd. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <52c3vn$ir4@skunkworks.specialty.ab.ca> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <slrn53vkra.d2o.jcostom@dogbert.sjis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: brolls.specialty.ab.ca X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:131660 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27991 comp.infosystems.www.misc:44102 In article <slrn53vkra.d2o.jcostom@dogbert.sjis.com>, jcostom@bofh.sjis.com (Jason Costomiris) wrote: >Yeah, at work, we have a P-120 with 16 MB of RAM running NT Server 4.0, it >runs IIS 2.0. For some competition, I set up a P-100 with 16 MB RAM. They >are on the same LAN segment, and in fact sit next to each other. The Linux >box is running RedHat 3.0.3 (updated via RPMs to 2.0.19), and Apache 1.1.1. > >They have the same set of pages loaded on each. The Linux box runs rings >around the NT machine. > On a related and tangential note, I installed NT 4.0 Server on a P100 w/ 32M on a fast disk. I then proceeded to add IIS 2.0 and MS Catapult (Cat Causes Halt? Crap-a-put? Either way, I wasn't impressed...keep reading...) I also have a 486dx2-50 with 16M with old slow 200M disks, running FBSD 2.1. The FBSD box acts as our main proxy, news and mail box. Plugging the FBSD and NT boxes directly into the router, I did a head-to-head web proxying test. Catapult took about 3 times as long to proxy a web page as the CERN proxy running on the FreeBSD box. I then did the end-user-quality test and reset the default proxy to point to the NT box. About 30 minutes into the QoS test, I put the FBSD back as the proxy. Too many complains about "the net is slow today"... Please explain to me how a P100 running only Catapult is slower than a 486dx2-50 running CERN. My only explanation is that Bill wants Catapult to intercept every packet and report back to Redmond what you're viewing... :-) --Jason jbg@specialty.ab.ca j.b.george@ieee.org