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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!psgrain!news.rain.net!usenet From: gary@ncn.com Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:49:01 GMT Organization: RAINet Lines: 26 Message-ID: <32879ede.90201192@news.rain.net> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <552p74$23e@polo.demon.co.uk> <554fun$r8v@clarknet.clark.net> <slrn57br6t.b75.jcostom@dogbert.sjis.com> <E0279x.21n@yedi.iaf.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.101.8.150 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:141135 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30910 comp.infosystems.www.misc:45573 On Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:46:45 GMT, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) wrote: >jcostom@shaft.sjis.com (Jason Costomiris) writes: > >>On 29 Oct 1996 08:40:55 GMT, William McBrine <wmcbrine@clark.net> 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. Linux, at least, is making progress in this area, >>: but of course the HTTP servers will have to be rewritten to support it. > >>Of course, this says nothing about how NT and OS/2 (did they find the >>other half yet? <g>) will perform under a heavy load. The sad fact >>is they choke under a heavy load. Take for example, Netscape's web site, >>which uses Sparcs, and MS's, which uses NT. I've never seen slowness on > >As far as I know NS uses SGI machines. > >Wilko I have several web servers. On one, a Pentium/120 with 64MB RAM, I've run both Windows NT 3.51 and Windows NT 4.0 with Netscape server. It gets heavy usage, and is always outperformed by one of our other web servers, running Linux and Apache on a 486/66...