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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!rxt651 From: rxt651@leonard.anu.edu.au (Rohan Tronson) 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: 19 Sep 1996 02:13:53 GMT Organization: Australian National University Lines: 35 Message-ID: <51qa91$89o@manuel.anu.edu.au> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51oph4$4vj@due.unit.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.2.15 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:129893 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27471 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43751 Tor Iver Wilhelmsen (toriver@pvv.ntnu.no) wrote: : Subhas Roy <subhas@pobox.com> writes: : >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? Ok, these comments are all very well. However in the field of Chemistry, which is my background, if you disagree with a published result, and can prove it, you publish your own, contraditory results. Which it seems is what we need to do as a community (with more than just this issue)! First contact with the publishers/authors of the original article is needed, will they release details such as what hardware was used and what versions of UNIX, and what benchmarks they carried out. Next an article prepared, using our own system, comparing them as fairly and as scientifically as possible, submit this article to something like Linux Journal (the wider audience the better, and the more general the audience the better, perhaps someone can suggest a more appropriate publication) and also submit a letter, citing the new article to the magazine in which the orgininal article was published. Anyone willing to take this on ? Unfortunatelly for the next couple of months at least I am far too busy to be able to do this. Perhaps U*ix stands a chance in this war of VapourWare and Propaganda if we let the the facts be widely known, and back them up with scientificly valid data. Rohan Rohan.Tronson@anu.edu.au