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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!polo.demon.co.uk!news From: john@polo.demon.co.uk (John Winters) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 28 Oct 1996 17:06:44 -0000 Organization: Spirit software Lines: 19 Message-ID: <552p74$23e@polo.demon.co.uk> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: polo.demon.co.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:138515 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30169 comp.infosystems.www.misc:45158 In article <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com>, 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? Somehow, if the best they can say about is that it performs best when lightly loaded, I don't think I'm interested. Reminds me of one of the Microsoft-weenies at work defending the proposed use of NT as a web server with the classic, "It's perfectly stable provided you don't touch the keyboard." John -- John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England.