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From: Geoff Mohler <gemohler@phoenix.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:32:26 -0700
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David Miller wrote:
> 
> Jim Hill (jimhill@swcp.com) wrote:
> : hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mark Hahn) writes:
> 
> : >show me NT on an 8M p5/100 serving 300 hits/second.
> : >that's not even hard with Linux.
> 
> Hmm, bc on my systems says 300 hits/second = 26 million hits/day.  I can't
> do that with my bsd systems, even with a lot more memory.

Yeah..

We're bringing online *it looks like* one of the "Gentleman's Magazines"
WWW sites online here ourselves.

We're a big BSD shop, but there is no way I would use FreeBSD for more
than a 100+hit/second
site.

Thats why I bought a SGI Challenge-L

G