From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 23 09:49:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26855 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:49:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26845; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:49:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA13231; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:44:47 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803231744.JAA13231@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Luigi Rizzo cc: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG (Jonathan M. Bresler), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a possibly interesting article... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:57:34 +0100." <199803231457.PAA09509@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:44:45 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > ... on how microsoft manages its web server (May 1997). > > > > > > http://microsoft.com/syspro/technet/tnnews/features/mscom.htm > > > > > > The web page has some data, and a pointer to an article in MSWord > > > format. > > > > this article is dated May 8, 1997. > > > > in email on the FreeBSD mailing lists, a person from > > microsoft disavowed the accuracy of this article. > > when asked for accurate data, they never replied. > > in fact i cannot really parse the numbers, and in some places I > have no idea if they use "MB" for megaBYTES or megaBITS ... one of > the sentences claims a bandwidth of 1800MB/s and a 4-CPU P6 machine > pumping out 120MB/s of data ... over FDDI(s)... What's most amusing to me is that they require this obscene pile of garbage to put out a measly 350GB/day. Wcarchive does about 250GB with a single P6. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message