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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Apache much slower than Netscape ! ?
Date: 30 Nov 1996 16:35:53 GMT
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(Restricted to the FreeBSD group.)

le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote:

> I'm running my ISP on FreeBSD 2.1 machines,with Apache on the WWW server.
> I understand that 2.1.6 has better stability and security,hence am
> cosidering an upgrade(NOT to 2.2),but this is the first I've heard that
> newer versions would make Apache run faster.

A lot of things have been sped up during the 2.2 development.  This is
probably what Martin was referring to.  Of course, for people like you
value stability more than speed, this probably means you gotta wait
for 2.2.1 or the like before you benefit from all these optimizations.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)