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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc-news.doc.ca!nott!hone!informer1.cis.McMaster.CA!hwfn!james!ac199 From: ac199@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www Subject: Unix too slow for a webserver Date: 18 Oct 1996 09:28:53 GMT Organization: Hamilton-Wentworth FreeNet, Ontario, Canada. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <547ikl$4rk@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2-HWFN] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:136161 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29490 Subhas Roy <subhas@pobox.com> wrote: > A ZDnet article says in the web page > http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/fea1096/sub4.html#jump2 > that Windows NT-based servers run much faster (as much as 13 > times) when client counts are low. > > Is that possible? Anybody wants to comment on the > article's claim? I don't know if this ever got mentioned in the subsequent thread (I don't think so, because the thread went off topic when I quit following it, and it still hadn't been mentioned), but, BSDI has an interesting comparison between MS NT + IIS vs BSD/OS + Apache. Needless to say, BSD/OS + Apache comes out ahead, but it actually comes out very far ahead. They go into fairly lengthy detail, but I think the above is a fair summary. http://www.bsdi.com/products/internet-server/benchmarks/webperf Needless to say, FreeBSD probably would have similar performance. --