Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:08:46 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Cc: nik@iii.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Solaris calls Hotmail shots for Microsoft Message-ID: <199804272208.RAA01459@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <19980427222408.A16053@klemm.gtn.com> from Andreas Klemm at "Apr 27, 98 10:24:08 pm"
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Andreas Klemm said: > On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 10:38:13AM +0100, nik@iii.co.uk wrote: > > In a leaked report, sources close to Hotmail said: "... its whole mail > > server infrastructure is Solaris. NT couldn't handle it. On the web > > server, they're running MP Pentiums and Apache on FreeBSD. They're > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > moving to Solaris for threads. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Does that mean we are not performing well enough without doing > more on our threads implementation ? Someone with a good guess ? > It could be that their apps depend on threads, and ours aren't maybe that good yet. They might be wanting kernel threads, and I am 100% on them now. The VM system, SMP, and buffer cache code are beckoning, but I am avoiding their siren call right now. :-). -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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