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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: 11 Nov 1996 22:40:56 GMT
Organization: New Age Consulting Service, Cleveland, OH, USA
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gary@ncn.com wrote:
: 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.
: >
:
: 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...
Similar situation here. We replaced 3 NT P133's each with 4 virtual
hosts with one Linux P133 and all 12 virtual hosts and the Linux box
is faster.
Make of it what you will. . .
** Heller
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