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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Tuning BSD as Web Server (was Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:54:36 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
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Rahul Dhesi wrote:
> The following saved posting may be of interest.

Hmmm.  Not really.  The opinions expressed therein are hopelessly naive
given that a very great deal of BSD's "critical path" code has been
optimized far beyond simple linear searches, and code which retains
simple search strategies *but is not traversed very often* is no more
relevant to your overall performance than ambient temperature.  I also
don't know how you do your kernel debugging, but around here it's
generally done in test environments that significantly *exceed* loads
commonly found in nature.  I dunno, the whole posting says essentially
nothing, especially given that NT's development could be said to suffer
from all the same potential "problems."
--
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project