From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 02:53:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA20401 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 02:53:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA20396 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 02:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA12768; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:25:49 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603041055.VAA12768@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: performance of FreeBSD on Pentium Pro? To: kallio@cc.jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:25:48 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, zing@pacificws.com, questions@freebsd.com In-Reply-To: from "Seppo Kallio" at Mar 4, 96 12:43:16 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Seppo Kallio stands accused of saying: > >> Unless you are expecting _very_ heavy loading, a Pentium system will carry >> your load perfectly well. Just make sure you ask the isp@freebsd.org people >> for tips on tuning for maximum web performance. > > I agree as long as we do not speak about CERN httpd + proxy + cache > > After my experience the proxy + cache services need much more CPU + i/o > power than usual web service. (Remeber, you _are_ running a monster web server, IIRC 8) It seems that the harvest cache daemon and apache are poised to finally kill off the cern daemon; any comments from someone actually using them? > Seppo -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[