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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!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!mr.net!news.clark.net!not-for-mail From: wmcbrine@clark.net (William McBrine) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 29 Oct 1996 08:40:55 GMT Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc. Lines: 8 Message-ID: <554fun$r8v@clarknet.clark.net> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <552p74$23e@polo.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: explorer.clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960824] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:138346 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30116 comp.infosystems.www.misc:45123 The reason Win NT -- and, IMHO a better choice, OS/2 -- systems might be faster web servers than Unix systems, in some circumstances, is their use of lightweight threads. Linux, at least, is making progress in this area, but of course the HTTP servers will have to be rewritten to support it. -- William McBrine | http://www.clark.net/pub/wmcbrine/html/ wmcbrine@clark.net | PyrE! Make them tell you what it is!