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From: patrickk@ispronet.com (Patrick Kessen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a webserver? NT faster? comon....
Date: 21 Oct 1996 15:19:54 GMT
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Yeah right, NT is a faster webserver platform then Unix?

right...

OS/2 is a faster platform for webserver-usage the NT is.
and in some situations Unix is faster then OS/2 for webservers.


In message <547ikl$4rk@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> -
ac199@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Tim Vanderhoek)18 Oct 1996 09:28:53 GMT writes:
:>
:>
:>Subhas Roy <subhas@pobox.com> wrote:
:>> A ZDnet article says in the web page
:>> http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/fea1096/sub4.html#jump2
:>> that Windows NT-based servers run much faster (as much as 13
:>> times) when client counts are low.
:>>
:>> Is that possible? Anybody wants to comment on the
:>> article's claim?
:>
:>I don't know if this ever got mentioned in the subsequent thread (I don't 
:>think so, because the thread went off topic when I quit following it, and 
:>it still hadn't been mentioned), but,
:>
:>BSDI has an interesting comparison between MS NT + IIS vs BSD/OS + 
:>Apache.  Needless to say, BSD/OS + Apache comes out ahead, but it 
:>actually comes out very far ahead.
:>
:>They go into fairly lengthy detail, but I think the above is a fair
:>summary. 
:>
:>http://www.bsdi.com/products/internet-server/benchmarks/webperf
:>
:>Needless to say, FreeBSD probably would have similar performance.
:>
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