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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 18:38:31 -0500
From: Steve Cole <coles@kos.net>
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Subject: Re: Apache much slower than Netscape ! ?
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, John Murtari wrote:

> We are also running Solaris 2.5.1 on Intel Pentium Pro and it
> flys -- YOU GOT TO GET THE KERNEL PATCHES (103581-01 & 10363-01).
> We were having lousy performance, put those in and we had about
> doubled performance. The new ISS should be another pickup!

I agree.  I've put every patch that has come out into our machines and
performance has risen considerably from the stock Solaris 2.5.1 install -
all the way around, not just in TCP/IP.

Cheers,
Steve      |President & Systems Administrator,  Kingston Online Services
           |(e pluribus unix)    Multiple-T1    URL: http://www.kos.net/
           |Business and Education partners in SouthEastern Ontario 
           |
           |"Through the firewall, out the router, down the T1, across the
           | backbone, bounced from satellite, it's nothing but net."