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From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 20 Sep 1996 10:24:36 -0500 Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Lines: 17 Message-ID: <s8hgot6wgb.fsf@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51mod4$f7@umbc7.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hill.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.39/Emacs 19.34 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!pumpkin.pangea.ca!chronos.syr.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!usenet Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130275 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27589 > 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. Keep in mind that the default setup of Apache may dispatch pages slower than NT just because it does a hostname lookup from the incoming connection. Try to download a set of pages from a stock Apache server from a machine without a name and see what happens. Fixing this is easy: just tell Apache not to do DNS reverse lookups. -- miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx The GNU Midnight Commander: http://www.linux.org/mc Linux/SPARC project: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/sparclinux.html