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From: Paul Richards <dpr@elsevier.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Apache much slower than Netscape ! ?
Date: 26 Nov 1996 14:59:15 +0000
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Klaftenegger Bernd <klafti@avl.co.at> writes:

> Atif Ahmad Khan wrote:
> > 
> > We have just setup a test Pentium PRO 200 server running Solaris X86 2.5.1
> > (all latest patches applied) and got Stronghold secure server (Apache
> > with SSL patches) and tried to run some benchmarks.
> 
> Im quite surprised - I have got the other situation on one of my hosts
> -  the Apache server has got about twice the performance the netscape
> commercial server has.

but from what he said Apache is running on Solaris and Netscape is
running on FreeBSD. I know what I'd pin the blame on :-)

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