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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!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!csn!nntp-xfer-2.csn.net!symbios.com!southwind.net!usenet From: markm@southwind.net (Mark A. Martin) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 18 Sep 1996 02:31:44 GMT Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <51nmug$9sg@opal.southwind.net> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51mts0$6j3@ezekiel.ieunet.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: ict50.southwind.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (beta 2) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:129827 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27448 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43733 In article <51mts0$6j3@ezekiel.ieunet.ie>, nick@Ireland.EU.net says... > >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 HUH ?? We have a brand shiny new 133 running NT and it SUCKS big time. I dusted off an old IBM RS/6000 520 with 64 MB ram and set up the NCSA server on it. Viola! A web server for 1500 Engineers, our 30 man software development staff, and a lot of cgi apps. and NOBODY ever complains about performance ! (and using AIX 3.2.5, not 4.1.3)