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From: windley@lal.cs.byu.edu (Phillip J. Windley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Tuning BSD as Web Server (was Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?)
Date: 20 Sep 1996 14:51:57 GMT
Organization: Laboratory for Applied Logic; Brigham Young University
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In-reply-to: dillon@best.com's message of 19 Sep 1996 09:38:29 -0700
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>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon <dillon@best.com> writes:
Matthew> I got bad news for you then... BEST is using a challenge L
Matthew> for serving it's user pages, and it appears to max out at
Matthew> around 70 hits/sec. There are just too many bottlenecks in
Matthew> the kernel. IRIX becomes very unhappy when you try to scale
Matthew> it up. We are actually migrating *back* to FreeBSD using
Matthew> Pentium Pro 200's now.
Matthew> IF you are really in love with SGI, I would suggest you
Matthew> get a couple of Indy's or S's and avoid the overpriced L's.
Let me try to turn this conversation to something I've been wondering
about.
I'm convinced (by my gut) that BSD (free or not) can support large numbers
of hits on a web server only with some fine tuning. The same is probably
true of the web server as well (Aliasing is done, for example, using a
linear search---thus slowing down *every* hit).
Anyone with experience in this who is willing to share tips on tuning BSD
to handle hundreds of hits per second?