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From: heller@nacs.net (Jettero Heller)
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: 30 Oct 1996 15:27:22 GMT
Organization: New Age Consulting Service, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Tom Lane (tgl@netcom.com) wrote:
: 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.
:
: That argument cuts both ways, of course ... are there any NT or OS/2 HTTP
: servers that can use multiple threads?
As much as I hate NT I have to say this. Every NT specific server
uses threads. It's inherent in NT and so it's very easy to make use
of. And, I'm going to guess that the reasont that OS/2 was mentioned
is because it, too, uses threads natively, including it's HTTP
servers.
** Heller
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