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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 2 Oct 1996 16:56:41 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <52u3bp$rab@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <Dy91KF.IMA@interactive.net> <52am8g$fvs@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <$oVmqBAydTTyEw9t@senator.demon.co.uk> <52pd61$cfb@flash.noc.best.net> <52rkhe$d62@library.clarkson.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: salmon.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:133234 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28467 komarimf@craft.clarkson.edu (Mark Komarinski) writes: >Try running something that hits the hard drive *a lot* and see your >performance go through the floor. (Hint: try running a news server) The drives cost the same weither you're putting them in an SGI a Sun or a PC. The good PCI SCSI cards will give the workstation people more than a run for their money. Are you saying that PC's can't compete or that there is no point in skimping on the cost of a disk ? David.