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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!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!library.clarkson.edu!craft.clarkson.edu!not-for-mail From: komarimf@craft.clarkson.edu (Mark Komarinski) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Date: 2 Oct 1996 13:47:04 GMT Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 40 Distribution: world Message-ID: <52troo$ffj@library.clarkson.edu> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <$oVmqBAydTTyEw9t@senator.demon.co.uk> <52pd61$cfb@flash.noc.best.net> <52rkhe$d62@library.clarkson.edu> <52s0db$dau@flash.noc.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: craft.camp.clarkson.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:133080 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28425 comp.infosystems.www.misc:44364 Matthew Dillon (dillon@best.com) wrote: : :In article <52rkhe$d62@library.clarkson.edu>, : :Mark Komarinski <komarimf@craft.clarkson.edu> wrote: : :>Matthew Dillon (dillon@best.com) wrote: : :>: :In article <$oVmqBAydTTyEw9t@senator.demon.co.uk>, : :>: :Gavin Estey <gavin@senator.demon.co.uk> wrote: : :>: :> : :>: :>Why would you want 20 gig on just one machine. You could have 10 : :>: :>machines each with serving 2 gig. : :>: : :>: Not cost effective. What you could serve out of 10 2G boxes another : :>: person would be able to serve out of 2 10G boxes 400% cheaper. Reliability : :>: is an issue, but not one deserving a 4x increase in cost in a heavily : :>: competitive market! : :> : :>Ha ha ha ha ha ha bwah! bwah! ha ha ha. Oh sorry. This is just *way* too : :>funny. : :> : :>Try running something that hits the hard drive *a lot* and see your : :>performance go through the floor. (Hint: try running a news server) : : Umm.. I think you missed the point big time. I was certainly NOT : recommending that you put a single 10G disk on a box. What I : was recommending was putting several 2G or 4G disks on a single box. : [...] : The point was that that with only 2G of disk on a single machine, : it is highly unlikely that you could run enough *SERVICES* on the : machine to even come close to maxing out the cpu. This results : in a waste of the machine's resources. Ahh. I read "box" as "drive". My apologies. -Mark -- - Mark Komarinski - komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. Check out comp.os.linux.* for more info.