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From: geert@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Geert Uytterhoeven)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: 26 Sep 1996 11:16:42 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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In article <52dkki$9pc@charm.il.ft.hse.nl>, robert@il.ft.hse.nl (robert) writes:
|> davelee@ranma.princeton.edu (David H. Lee):
|>  >Marc MERLIN (merlin@magic.metawire.com) wrote:
|>  >: In article <32423719.6904CE4@julia.de>,
|>  >: -mat- filid brandy  <brandy@julia.de> wrote:
|>  >: >I tested a i486 with apache to make 70.000 hits/s and only have load 4.
|>  >: Did you mean 70Kpd (per day)?
|>  >He wrote 70.000 hits/s which means 70 hits /second.  
|> 
|> Since he's from Germany (*), he prolly meant 70k
|> 
|> Anyways, why would he write down the number of hits/s with a 1/1000
|> accuracy?
|> 
|> *: 1,000 in the US = one thousand
|>    1,000 in Europe = one
|>    1.000 is the US = one
|>    1.000 in Europe = one thousand
|>    ...ah, such joy.

Yeah, that's why we measure computer prices in KBEF (1000 Belgian Francs) over
here :-)

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/m68k on Amiga          http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium