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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!news.unisource.nl!xs4all!xs4all!usenet From: patrickk@ispronet.com (Patrick Kessen) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a webserver? NT faster? comon.... Date: 21 Oct 1996 15:19:54 GMT Organization: Ispro Lines: 41 Message-ID: <54g4aq$jg2@news.xs4all.nl> References: <547ikl$4rk@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: ispro.xs4all.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-XS4ALL-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:19:54 MET DST X-XS4ALL-User: patrickk@xs4all.nl on ispro.xs4all.nl X-Newsreader: NeoLogic News for OS/2 [version: 4.5d] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:136809 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29709 Yeah right, NT is a faster webserver platform then Unix? right... OS/2 is a faster platform for webserver-usage the NT is. and in some situations Unix is faster then OS/2 for webservers. In message <547ikl$4rk@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> - ac199@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Tim Vanderhoek)18 Oct 1996 09:28:53 GMT writes: :> :> :>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. :> :>--