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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.imperium.net!usenet From: Mark Lehrer <edge@mud.imperium.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 11 Nov 1996 14:33:19 -0500 Organization: Imperium Internet Lines: 21 Message-ID: <w7g22gjukg.fsf@mud.imperium.net> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <552p74$23e@polo.demon.co.uk> <554fun$r8v@clarknet.clark.net> <TGL.96Oct29221138@netcom18.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mud.imperium.net X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:141056 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30896 comp.infosystems.www.misc:45563 tgl@netcom.com (Tom Lane) writes: > 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? > > BTW, if you think Linux is the first Unix system to support lightweight > threads, you are ill-informed. Posix threads have been standard for > a while. Don't forget that Apache spawns a large number of processes and leaves them idle - there is no "thread" creation overhead unless you get a ton of requests at once. mark