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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-8.sprintlink.net!connix.com!usenet From: Jon Bloom <jbloom@connix.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 20:05:37 -0400 Organization: Connix - The Connecticut Internet Exchange Lines: 32 Message-ID: <323F3CD1.6F388550@connix.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jbloom.connix.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:129648 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27397 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43698 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? Since they offer no hint on the products, platforms or methodology used, it's hard to make any specifc comments. It's interesting to note that they found that Unix servers gave about the same performance whether they are handling 2 or 20 clients, whereas NT servers gave faster performance at low client counts. Another way of saying the same thing is that NT servers slow down noticably as the number of connections increases, while Unix servers do not. I'd call that a point in *favor* of using Unix servers. All I can say is that on the Linux 1.2.13 based Apache server at work (running on a 486DX66, of all things), I can't tell when accessing it whether it is serving just me or a number of other clients. And since I access it via a LAN, even relatively small delays to its usual near- instantaneous response would be noticible, I think. (It's not a real heavily used server: about 300 hits/hour from the Internet on average, more during the day. We don't log or count hits from the LAN, but I'd guess that's in the 300/hour range, too.) -- Jon Bloom jbloom@connix.com