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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:32:51 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mark Giglio <markgiglio@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hotmail converted from freeBSD
Message-ID:  <20010424113251.C83693@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010424160312.14367.qmail@web9303.mail.yahoo.com>; from markgiglio@yahoo.com on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:03:12AM -0700
References:  <20010424160312.14367.qmail@web9303.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:03:12AM -0700, Mark Giglio wrote:
> Hi i heard this happened and one of their main
> business drivers was that "The cgi
> "one-process-per-socket" model, under FreeBSD, is very
> inefficient."
>=20
> I am interested in FreeBSD and how it compares to
> other systems like win2000, esp because I would like
> to build a big powerful super computer and am
> investigating options for my os.
>=20
> first of all, (please humbly pardon my ignorance) what
> does the comment re sockets mean.  secondly, is this
> true about bsd.  and thirdly, can it be improved, or
> is it a property of cgi and fixed?

You can run inefficient applications on any OS.  FreeBSD can be (and
usually is) a very efficient webserver, but MS weren't interested in
making their hotmail scripts efficient, they wanted to switch to Win2k
instead for political reasons.

Kris

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