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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!xmission!xmission!not-for-mail From: bgeer@xmission.xmission.com (bgeer) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 5 Nov 1996 11:31:42 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <55o16e$g6a@xmission.xmission.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <552p74$23e@polo.demon.co.uk> <554fun$r8v@clarknet.clark.net> <55io8t$jca@uriah.heep.sax.de> <55npp6$c5r@news1.iamerica.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: xmission.xmission.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:140116 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30695 comp.infosystems.www.misc:45405 I'm jumping into this thread (sorry!) a bit late...but: AJ Musgrove <musgrove@xavier.varmm.com> writes: >: wmcbrine@clark.net (William McBrine) wrote: >: > 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. In the experience of my ex-employer colleagues using Linux in place of WinNT on PC hardware, Linux is much faster & more stable. As for Web servers, those that pre-fork server children & have plenty of memory to run on are certainly no slower on a mip for mip equivalent Unix box. -- <> Robert Geer & Donna Tomky / * <> <> bgeer@xmission.com | _o * o * o <> <> Salt Lake City, Utah | -\<, * <\ </L <> <> U S A | O/ O __ /__, /> <>