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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!zephyr!pico!ricardo From: ricardo@pico.seas.ucla.edu (Ricardo C. Lagos) Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Sender: news@seas.ucla.edu (News Daemon) Message-ID: <DxyA6u.DvL@seas.ucla.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:52:05 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pico.seas.ucla.edu References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51mts0$6j3@ezekiel.ieunet.ie> Organization: School of Engineering & Applied Science, UCLA. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 33 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130082 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27531 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43784 I just finished reading that article ... hmmm .. to me it seemed WAAAY too eager to sell the Microsoft Web Server... Nick Hilliard (nick@Ireland.EU.net) wrote: : 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 -- [-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-][-] Ricardo C. Lagos UCLA Computer Science ricardo@seas.ucla.edu