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#! rnews 1370 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!sumner+ From: G Sumner Hayes <sumner+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:07:39 -0500 Organization: Sophomore, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 13 Message-ID: <0mRXbP200YUe0K9=40@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <552p74$23e@polo.demon.co.uk> <554fun$r8v@clarknet.clark.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: po7.andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <554fun$r8v@clarknet.clark.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:138433 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30143 comp.infosystems.www.misc:45148 wmcbrine@clark.net (William McBrine) writes: > The reason Win NT -- and, IMHO a better choice, OS/2 -- systems might be > faster web servers than Unix systems, in some circumstances, is their use > of lightweight threads. Linux, at least, is making progress in this area, > but of course the HTTP servers will have to be rewritten to support it. > AOLServer has been multithreaded on Linux (using kernel threads) for some time now. Cordially, Sumner