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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!news.moneng.mei.com!news.ecn.bgu.edu!psuvax1!news.math.psu.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!prodigy.com!darkstar.prodigy.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix Subject: Re: Linux or Free BSD for WWW server and the Best OS for serving pages? Date: 9 Nov 1995 15:50:19 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Lines: 22 Message-ID: <47t7vr$g08@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> References: <47oul2$35j@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <47ojep$rr1@dns.crocker.com> <47s102$m9a@news.accessone.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.4.137.118 Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:19751 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8831 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix:6452 In article <47s102$m9a@news.accessone.com>, Jim Bachesta <bachesta@net-serve.com> wrote: | I can't say anything about the current implementation of Linux. There's a lot | of positive attributes about the OS. I ran into a problem last year setting | up a web server on a 56K FR link. The system performed poorly for web page | serving and mail serving (via pop 3). I was going nuts trying to solve the | problem. My client was loosing patients so I replaced the OS with NetBSD. The | differenc in performance was dramatic. My client was happy and all ended | well. The same machine now serves on a T1 link w/o any glitches. Runs months | on end. It only goes down when I need to shut it down for maintenance. BTW the | machine is a 66 Mhz 486 with 32M of Ram. Sounds like a config problem, like the old NCSA server running without the Linux patch to prefork processes or something like that. As for mail, I've never run more than 50-100k messages a day through a Linux box (386-40) so I can't say how it would be in heavy use. How many queues and copies of sendmail were you running on the server. Having a doctor with a web page may be a first!