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#! rnews 1822 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.Gsu.EDU!usenet From: "David Hull" <dhull@gsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Date: 10 Sep 1996 12:52:37 GMT Organization: Georgia State University Lines: 30 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <01bb9f17$a31028b0$8d4d6083@gcicntdh> References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> <50p41e$1ie@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <32305b37.590852758@news.intellistar.net> <aak2.842255270@Isis.MsState.Edu> <Pine.GSO.3.95.960909083306.1195F-100000@mercury.kosone.com> <DxHFFo.EHL@interactive.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.96.77.141 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27209 comp.unix.solaris:82430 comp.os.linux.misc:128940 Chris Mauritz <ritz@onyx.interactive.net> wrote in article <DxHFFo.EHL@interactive.net>... > I was using an older version of FreeBSD (2.0R) on the following > system and it easily handled over 400k hit/day as a web server. > > 486 DX4/100 > Buslogic BT-445 VLB SCSI controller > 32mb RAM > 256k cache > 1 2gig Barracuda > 1 1gig Fujitsu (subsequently failed) > 3COM 3C509 ethernet card > > Even during peak usage, top and "vmstat -systat" showed the > machine to be 80-90% idle. > > Chris 32 MB RAM? 10 Mb Ethernet? 400,000 hits per day? First off, that's a little hard to swallow. Secondly, what're you doing that's generating 400,000 hits per day? -- -- -- -- David Hull Network Administrator/WebMaster Georgia Career Information Center at Georgia State University "If you can't measure it and express it in numbers, you don't understand it."