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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!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!newshub.cts.com!news7.crl.com!nntp.crl.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sgi.com!wrdiss1.robins.af.mil!news.monroe.army.mil!info.usuhs.mil!cs.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!not-for-mail From: pauld@umbc.edu (Paul Danckaert) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 17 Sep 1996 13:50:28 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lines: 33 Message-ID: <51mod4$f7@umbc7.umbc.edu> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: f-umbc7.umbc.edu NNTP-Posting-User: pauld Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130100 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27535 In article <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com>, Subhas Roy <subhas@pobox.com> 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? The article is somewhat strange.. I don't see how an NT box is going to serve 13 times faster than an equivilant box running Unix. If you are running apache, for example, the connection grabs an existing server and simply throws the data out.. very little slowdown. The part about NT being so much easier to install and use is just not true. I've installed FreeBSD and Linux on many different kinds of machines, almost all of them worked very easily. The one time I tried to install a NT box, it took a board swap, memory swap, and weeks dealing with the vendor to get their "NT Certified" box to even *install* NT, much less run it. All in all, I would like to see real tests that prove their claim. The article seems very PC/NT oriented, doing the "Microsoft all the way" type thing. They only judged a few web servers, and all on NT it would seem. If they are going to make claims about UNIX being 13 times slower, I would like to know what they did to prove it, harware, software, and everything else. paul