Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!panix!netaxs.com!heinlein.k2nesoft.com!jcostom From: jcostom@shaft.sjis.com (Jason Costomiris) 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 11:39:09 GMT Organization: Friends of Richard Roundtree Lines: 22 Message-ID: <slrn57br6t.b75.jcostom@dogbert.sjis.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <552p74$23e@polo.demon.co.uk> <554fun$r8v@clarknet.clark.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dogbert.sjis.com X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.1.1 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:138391 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30129 comp.infosystems.www.misc:45134 On 29 Oct 1996 08:40:55 GMT, William McBrine <wmcbrine@clark.net> wrote: : 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. Of course, this says nothing about how NT and OS/2 (did they find the other half yet? <g>) will perform under a heavy load. The sad fact is they choke under a heavy load. Take for example, Netscape's web site, which uses Sparcs, and MS's, which uses NT. I've never seen slowness on Netscape's site. As soon as MS comes out with something new, you get error messages from the server, like "too busy now". That says enough for me. (BTW, at last check, Netscape was taking around 100 million hits a day...) -- Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key jcostom@sjis.com | "There is a fine line between idiocy My employers like me, but not | and genius. We aim to erase that line" enough to let me speak for them. | --Unknown http://www.jasons.org/~jcostom