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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!magic.metawire.com!magic.metawire.com!not-for-mail From: merlin@magic.metawire.com (Marc MERLIN) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: How many hits a second on a unix server? Date: 19 Sep 1996 15:40:42 -0700 Organization: Private Linux Box based on Red Hat Linux Lines: 26 Message-ID: <51si5a$79o@magic.metawire.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51nn4m$gn3@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130200 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27567 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43811 In article <51nn4m$gn3@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, Mark Hahn <hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu> wrote: >> 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. > >this is asinine. show me NT on an 8M p5/100 serving 300 hits/second. >that's not even hard with Linux. 300 hits/s = 25,920,000 hits/day, more than Netscape, and they distribute the load on many servers, and DNS rotation. Keep in mind that each hit takes several seconds to serve, and that with an average of 5sec/hit (understatement when you look at most web pages), you would need about 1500 Web servers in Memory (and of course about 400 Megs of memory to fit all these in memory if your unix flavor could handle that many processes). Handling more than a few hits a second is already a lot. If you Email me the most you ever got on one unix host (type of host, memory, etc...), I'll post a summary here. Marc -- Home page: http://www.efrei.fr/~merlin/ (browser friendly)