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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!wa.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) 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: 18 Sep 1996 14:48:55 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <51ouk7$hv@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <323F123D.6D55@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130121 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27541 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43789 Ken Bigelow (kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com) wrote: [rubbish deleted] : I will refrain from uttering the plain-language content of my real : opinion of such a claim. Let's just leave it at this: I'm running Apache : 1.1.1 on a FreeBSD 2.1R platform, and even when my site is being : accessed top reports the CPU capacity is largely idle. The server : machine is currently using a 486DX-50. I plan to upgrade to an AMD : 5x86DX-133, which overclocks very nicely to 160 MHz (too bad it won't do : 200, but what do you want? Egg in your beer?), but there seems little : need to hurry; the box outspeeds the phone line with my present : connection, and I can't afford an ISDN link or better until I go : commercial (which will be yet awhile). I tried overclocking my AMD 133 to 160 running FreeBSD. It ran for several hours, clitched (missed some info from a SCSI tape read), recovered by just missing a single file, ran for a while (another 8-9 hours) then hung - dead as a post. Unfortunately, I was comparing this chip to a P24T at the time, and the P24T won easily. The AMD-133 goes to my mother on the 28th. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....