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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!eru.mt.luth.se!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.biddeford.com!web.ddp.state.me.us!gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us!isdmill From: isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us (David Miller) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Date: 27 Sep 1996 16:21:23 GMT Organization: Maine State Government Lines: 30 Message-ID: <52guu3$s8a@web.ddp.state.me.us> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <slrn53vkra.d2o.jcostom@dogbert.sjis.com> <52c3vn$ir4@skunkworks.specialty.ab.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:132174 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28131 comp.infosystems.www.misc:44205 Jason George (jbg@specialty.ab.ca) wrote: : In article <slrn53vkra.d2o.jcostom@dogbert.sjis.com>, jcostom@bofh.sjis.com (Jason Costomiris) wrote: : >Yeah, at work, we have a P-120 with 16 MB of RAM running NT Server 4.0, it : >runs IIS 2.0. For some competition, I set up a P-100 with 16 MB RAM. They : >are on the same LAN segment, and in fact sit next to each other. The Linux : >box is running RedHat 3.0.3 (updated via RPMs to 2.0.19), and Apache 1.1.1. : > : >They have the same set of pages loaded on each. The Linux box runs rings : >around the NT machine. : > : On a related and tangential note, I installed NT 4.0 Server on a P100 w/ 32M : on a fast disk. I then proceeded to add IIS 2.0 and MS Catapult (Cat Causes : Halt? Crap-a-put? Either way, I wasn't impressed...keep reading...) I : also have a 486dx2-50 with 16M with old slow 200M disks, running FBSD 2.1. : The FBSD box acts as our main proxy, news and mail box. : Plugging the FBSD and NT boxes directly into the router, I did a head-to-head : web proxying test. Catapult took about 3 times as long to proxy a web page as : the CERN proxy running on the FreeBSD box. I then did the end-user-quality : test and reset the default proxy to point to the NT box. About 30 minutes : into the QoS test, I put the FBSD back as the proxy. Too many complains about : "the net is slow today"... This is bad news for catapult.... The CERN proxy is about the slowest proxy you can get! Try squid or harvest instead:) -- David Miller Usual disclaimers apply