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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!sun4nl!dataweb.net!Leiden.NL.net!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands Message-ID: <E0279x.21n@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <552p74$23e@polo.demon.co.uk> <554fun$r8v@clarknet.clark.net> <slrn57br6t.b75.jcostom@dogbert.sjis.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:46:45 GMT Lines: 16 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:138660 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30247 comp.infosystems.www.misc:45190 jcostom@shaft.sjis.com (Jason Costomiris) writes: >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 As far as I know NS uses SGI machines. Wilko