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From: John Murtari <jmurtari@thebook.com>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Apache much slower than Netscape ! ?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:08:01 -0500
Organization: Software Workshop Inc
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To: Ollivier Robert <Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr>
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Ollivier Robert wrote:
> 
>     [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]
> 
> In article <aak2.848946036@Isis.MsState.Edu>,
> Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote:
> > Imagine our surprise when we found out that Netscape is roughly 6 times
> > faster.  I am not sure what to blame, the Solaris OS or Apache or
> > Stronghold.
> 
> Slowlaris is an easy culprit :-)

We are also running Solaris 2.5.1 on Intel Pentium Pro and it
flys -- YOU GOT TO GET THE KERNEL PATCHES (103581-01 & 10363-01).
We were having lousy performance, put those in and we had about
doubled performance. The new ISS should be another pickup!


                                         John
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