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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!newshub.csu.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!swrinde.nde.swri.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!not-for-mail From: nick@Ireland.EU.net (Nick Hilliard) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Date: 17 Sep 1996 20:23:44 +0100 Organization: EUnet Ireland Lines: 20 Message-ID: <51mts0$6j3@ezekiel.ieunet.ie> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ieunet.ie X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:129694 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27412 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43705 Subhas Roy (subhas@pobox.com) said: : 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. Sounds just like the sort of sycophantic Gates-is-god dross you'd expect from PC Computing (or indeed most other ZD publications). One interesting things about this article is that the reviewers completely failed to give any idea about what hardware was used, what version of Unix was used and what the final figures were. Their description of the test sounded arbitrary at best and useless and misleading at worst. What on earth do they mean by "to process a request"? Do they mean query a database? Fetch a file from a disk? Run a cgi command? Apart from the pricing information, one could probably dismiss this a wholly content-free article. Nick