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From: damin@seka.nacs.net (Greg Boehnlein)
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?
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Date: 19 Nov 1995 15:55:13 GMT
Organization: New Age Consulting Service, Cleveland, OH, USA
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bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) wrote:
: 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.
We use Linux exclusively in house on a variety of machines and have found
that it performs just dandy when plugged into a few T-1 lines.
We use Linux for a Shell, Pop, SLIP/PPP, News, Web.......etc server and
don't really have any problems.
My Linux news-server has been online since I booted it and will only come
down today when I install another 2.1 gig drive into it.
--
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