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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!dsinc!sun630.bentley.com!usenet From: Mark Hamstra <mhamstra@sullivan.bentley.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:40:51 -0400 Organization: Bentley Systems, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <323EE2A3.2C23B8A2@sullivan.bentley.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sullivan.bentley.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b7Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.20 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:129580 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27372 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43684 Subhas Roy wrote: > > A ZDnet article says in the web page > http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/fea1096/sub4.html#jump2 > that Windows NT-based servers run much faster (as much as 13 > times) when client counts are low. > > Is that possible? Anybody wants to comment on the > article's claim? I don't know about the claim that NT is faster than Unix for lightly loaded web sites, but the decision tree at the end of this article makes me highly doubt the merit of the rest of the article's claims. Any article that includes a decision tree for web servers that only allows outcomes of NT/IIS or Netscape Server and doesn't consider Apache at all is not worth taking seriously, in my opinion. Mark Hamstra Bentley Systems, Inc.