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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@indy.celebration.net>
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: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:25:39 -0700
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Peter Evans wrote:
> 
>         I think the best one is probably "retire apache" and use a
>         decent server that doesnt spawn itself left right and silly.
>         I quite like spinner, or roxen, or whatever it is called
>         today. (http://www.roxen.com/ ??)
> 
Also, FreeBSD-current has some improvements that help fork and fork/exec
times significantly.  Of course, it is better to avoid them, but
fork times can be improved in *BSD.  They have made similar
improvements in Linux also.

John